Opioids are bad medicine for chronic pain, say new federal guidelines

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

In an attempt to combat the nation’s ongoing prescription drug epidemic, federal health officials Tuesday issued new guidelines that discourage physicians from prescribing painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin for the treatment of chronic conditions such as backaches, neck pain and migraines....

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