Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch

2016-03-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On March 15, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first-ever “Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain”—twenty years after Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin with aggressive marketing based on false addiction claims, and nine years after …

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Illicit Fentanyl Overtakes Prescription Opioids as Leading Cause of Overdose Deaths

2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

In 2016, illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids overtook prescription opioids as the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths in the United States, marking a deadly transition in the opioid epidemic. This shift represented the catastrophic unintended consequence of belated efforts to restrict …

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