Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline For Prescribing Opioids

On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published this proposed 2022 clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids. The clinical practice guideline updates and expands the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016, and provides evidence-based recommendations for primary care 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 diseaserelated pain management, cancer pain . . .