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CDC Tells Doctors: Stop Prescribing Opioids
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CDC Tells Doctors: Stop Prescribing Opioids

New guidelines have been released by the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encourage doctors to avoid prescribing opioids to their patients and instead offer treatment alternatives such as physical therapy or non-addictive painkillers. Though opioids have many positive benefits medically, the risk has been increasingly outweighing the benefit. For every five people...