As a health care writer and policy analyst, I frequently encounter the term “risk” in discussions of medical issues. I also frequently see the term grossly misused in both the popular press and medical literature. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 2016 and 2022 CDC Guidelines for the prescription of opioids in the
How misused terminology and biased studies may be misguiding our understanding of opioid addiction and mortality originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
