As I have written elsewhere, the United States is now embroiled in a highly contentious debate concerning the causes of the so-called “opioid crisis.” Prescribing guidelines updated in 2022 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Veterans Administration (VA) have become the basis for continuing scientifically unsupported restrictions on patient access to
When state legislators are given the opportunity, they vote overwhelmingly for doctor autonomy in pain treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
