Draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline For Prescribing Opioids–United States, 2022

On February 10, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published this draft update to its practice guidelines for prescribing opioids. The update provides evidence-based recommendations for clinical professionals who provide pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients age 18 years and older with acute pain (duration less than 1 month), subacute pain (duration of 1-3 months), or chronic pain (duration of 3 months or more), not including sickle cell disease-related pain management, cancer pain treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The clinical practice guideline includes recommendations for primary care clinicians (including . . .