CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain—United States, 2022

🤖 Plain-English Summary

This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged ≥18 years. Recommendations should not be applied as inflexible standards of care across patient populations.

🔑 Key Findings

• It updates the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain - United States, 2016 (MMWR Recomm Rep 2016;65[No.
• RR-1]:1-49) and includes recommendations for managing acute (duration of <1 month), subacute (duration of 1-3 months), and chronic (duration of >3 months) pain.
• The recommendations do not apply to pain related to sickle cell disease or cancer or to patients receiving palliative or end-of-life care.

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