CDC Issues New Opioid Prescribing Guidance, Giving Doctors More Leeway to Treat Pain | KQED
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For example, Beletsky points to how the definition of high-dosage opioid use - described as 90 or more morphine milligram equivalents (PDF) daily  in the 2016 recommendations - was used to establish legal limits."The [2016] guideline itself was clear that this was not a bright line rule," he says, "But it became a de facto label, separating appropriate and inappropriate prescribing," he says.
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