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How Stringent Regulation Can Help Control Opioid Addiction

In March 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new set of guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. The following month, the Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing led various health care organizations to petition the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations to end mandatory pain assessment due to the fostering of dangerous pain control practices that lead to overprescription of drugs.

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