How the CDC’s opioid rules created a crisis for chronic pain patients

Adapted from Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids. The 2016 CDC opioid guideline seemed to make obvious sense: Americans were consuming far too many prescribed opioids. Many users of illicit opioids reported that prescribed opioids had been their gateway to illicit usage, even addiction. And users of illegal

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