CDC changes guidelines surrounding prescribing opioids for patients in pain

The CDC released an updated Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, and some physicians said they are content with it.

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[jetpetty]

0:54 no, EVERYONE was not prescribing opioids for EVERYTHING in the '90s and '00s. I'm sure there were over-prescribed and pill mills but those were in the minority even back then. Nowadays, the opioid hysteria has gotten so insane that you will probably not receive even a mild opioid for a limited time after a major dental procedure or even after surgery.

Chronic pain patients are being forced off of the opioids that give them quality of life. Some chronic pain patients turn to the streets out of sheer desperation for relief. And many are unaliving themselves due to unrelenting pain.

When will this inhumane torture end?!?

[toddpa-c]

Damage has been done already. Tell the DEA to listen and go after the illicit fentanyl drug dealers instead of drs. Not one Od on Rx meds in the last 3 yrs in the northeast

[jackiehouck]

I hope that those who need this medication are able to get their medication so they can have a better quality of life. I have known many people who have suffered in severe chronic pain screaming for relief from the stabbing electric ⚡️ shock of pain that will make the strongest fall to their knees. Don’t let our people suffer at the hands of those who have no credibility in the medical profession.

[dr.thomasklinemdphdmedical]

CDC is not authorized develop guidelines for pain medications

[texasbluegrass]

It only got worse. The stigma associated with opioids is killing pain patients and the DEA knows this. They have cut production of opioids every year and now thousands of people are forced to go through horrific pain and even death because there simply isn't enough meds to go around. This includes end stage cancer patients. Hospitals are refusing opioids to patients after surgery and offering ridiculous drugs that have no pain killing qualities including benedryl. The people are being forced onto the streets to look for relief. They end up with phentanyl and die. The od's are a direct result of the government thinking they are doctors and cutting patients off.

[grantwilks]

It is not any of the CDC OR DEA’s business what kind of medication we take as grown adults. I’m 54 years old with severe chronic pain in my back from two failed surgeries, no cartilage in my knees or shoulder joints. Diabetic stage 2, cancer etc. I n my opinion, when it comes to pain, NO ADULT should need a prescription to get any pain medicine they want PERIOD. If I have the money to walk in and give me 60 oxycodone 20’s and 60 klonopin for my panic attacks and stress, It should be bottled up and sold to me right then with no script or any questions. Not to mention the attitudes I have had to deal with at pharmacies. As soon as you mention pain meds and Walgreens are exceptionally bad at this but they quickly get a smart attitude and look at you like trash. We can change this people but we have to come together and make a lot of noise. I’ve had enough of this pain myself and I am going to do something. I don’t know what but there’s a answer to this and I’m going to find it.

[emmabovary]

My mother is suffering from chronic pain. Frankly, I don’t want anyone who doesn’t have chronic pain to sit on these FDADEA decision making committees to make any decisions as to strength, type of medication or delivery of pain medication. None of these people are enduring the day to day suffering. Chronic pain patients are not creating addicts. The open border is!

[AMO]

If ANY of the experts or people that say opioids are BAD suffered from chronic pain this would not be any issue. Chronic pain suffers are dependent on pain meds to have any semblance of a life, they are not addicted to them.

[ClaraTimmins]

I had a daughter in law that was told we don’t give pain meds after a C-section. I’ve had 3 and there’s no way I would have left the hospital without them. I never even wanted more after that first week. So how about some common sense

[EDD]

F--- the C D C ! when my PC Dr. can prescrib what HE desides, quit telling them what to do, c d c isn`t qualified to apply a band-aid !

[TheSilverlady]

I am being forced into assisted dying because my doctor is retiring and no doctors taking patients. ERs and walk ins don’t prescribe. I am a cancer patient had 5 surgeries even brain surgery !! all options exhausted only narcotics now will allow me to live. Have letters to that effect 30 MG daily and and for years I have stable and enduring. It’s the lowest effective dose. I don’t drink, don’t smoke just need the nerve damage in my brain caused by a friggin oncologist who told “radiation is perfectly safe”. We it’s not! Lost all my teeth, am legally blind and trigeminal ganglion in my brain melted and fused!! This is patient abandonment. This is murder. All I need is one appointment per month 10 minutes and my 30 mg and I am fine. Now what go seek drugs on the street or go to assisted dying!! God is watching! Praying the Kingdom comes like we are told to by Jesus himself.

[BashoStrikes]

I'm 69 years old and recently underwent brain surgery. I spent three days in ICU being treated with morphine for intense pain. Upon release I was prescribed 28 Vicodin for the next week which barely took the edge off the pain. Then they gave me Tylenol which didn't work at all and I was bed ridden in agony until I finally acquired adequate pain medication through the under market. Problem solved. When the pain finally subsided, I stopped the meds and am certainly not addicted to anything.

[AlphaMindset]

Hopefully who ever made the new Opioid guideline they get into an accident or injured where they need to use Opioids and the doctor denied them. To make them feel the same way as us the one we truly need them. i have a painful hip pain 2 broken toes nothing. This is unfair. We will suffer to the day we die do to their laws.

[ClaraTimmins]

And now seniors in chronic pain are being treated like the teenager addict

[shawnaford]

That lady needs to differentiate between acute pain, wisdom teeth removal and chronic pain.

[pete]

Pain patients are dying & it's NOT from prescription meds!!

[susanemminger]

I also have fibro, degen disc disease and others and I am in Calif. my dr won’t prescribe any pain med, not even Tylenol 3 . I’m 78 and fibro is getting worse.

[Kahn]

I had vicodin when my wisdom teeth were taken out and it was still pretty painful even with it. I cant imagine going through that with only Tylenol or ibuprofen

[emilyullrich]

Unfortunately there’s a disconnect between the guidelines, doctors, and pharmacies. The DEA cuts on production of controlled substances (75% lower than in 2022. Chronic pain patients are SUFFERING to access their lifesaving medications. Please cover this!

[lynnettemetts]

I have chronic pain for back surgery. I’ve been taking them for thirty years, and now can’t get them. Pharmacies can’t get it. Opioids are heroin addicts too. They don’t split the data on who is abusing what. We are all classified the same. This is insane what is happening