HHS Announces New Guidelines for Opioids
The Department of Health and Human Services recently published a new Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics. The guide shares that both individual patients and the public's health benefit only when opioids are prescribed so that the benefits outweigh the risks. Additionally, the new guidelines give advice to medical staff who are contemplating or initiating changing opioid dosage. Click here for more.