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Human Studies


2021 Jul 01


Pain Med

Assessing variation in state opioid tapering laws: Comparing state laws with the CDC guideline.

Authors

Danielson EC, Harle CA, Silverman R, Blackburn J, Menachemi N
Pain Med. 2021 Jul 01.
PMID: 34196723.

Abstract

In 2016, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released an opioid prescribing guideline for primary care in response to opioid overdose deaths. Despite efforts to encourage safer prescribing practices, experts and federal agencies suspect prescribing guidelines may be misapplied in clinical practice, resulting in abrupt tapering from opioid therapy. Although state laws likely influence prescriber behavior, little is known about state tapering laws. Thus, we examined the scope and variation of state tapering laws compared with federal opioid guidelines.