The ‘science’ behind 90MME as the upper limit for opioids prescribed for chronic pain

In 2016 the US Centers for Disease control (CDC) released guidelines on the prescribing of opioids for chronic pain in an effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths.  These guidelines had disastrous consequences for US chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) patients, many of whom were force tapered off their opioid pain relieving medications to their great detriment.  … Read more