"Are CDC Guidelines Hurting or Helping People With Chronic Pain?"

FLASH ALERT: "Are CDC Guidelines Hurting or Helping People With Chronic Pain" One Hour Interview with Red Lawhern on KTLA Las Vegas

Friends and Colleagues,

This note is to announce publication of an hour-long interview with Duncan Phenix, Producer for George Knapp's radio and TV series "The Other Side of Opioids" for KLAS TV Las Vegas, published on the Mystery Wire.

This program is syndicated in several major US cities and is now live on U-Tube. A text transcript is also available, which I am in the process of editing to remove minor machine translation hiccoughs and break up into more manageable paragraphs.

Text Transcript (in work)

https://www.mysterywire.com/top-stories/the-other-side-of-opioids/

Interview on U-Tube:

https://youtu.be/fEVRsAvSm8A

I must add one note on a study discussed during this interview: The VALUE study at Stanford University will examine patient experiences over a period of one year, in a different context from the EMPOWER study on which I mistakenly reported during the interview. The Study Directors summarize the purposes and protocols of the VALUE study here:

https://painnews.stanford.edu/news/what-value-value-study-patients-chronic-pain-taking-long-term-opioids

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I believe this interview represents major progress in challenging the false narratives and misdirection of current efforts by US CDC to revise and expand the 2016 guidelines on prescription of opioids to adults with chronic non-cancer pain. Feel free to share this note with others.

Sincere best regards.