Read Part 2 here: Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptionsMany Americans today will attend several funerals before they get their first gray hair. Medical professionals, patients and others familiar with the opioid crisis and the fallout from the government crackdown have offered a variety of ideas. RESETTING CDC GUIDELINESMany believe the most urgent need is to address misunderstandings about the CDC guidelines. Many prescribers trigger so-called “red flags” by errors or omissions in pain patients’ medical records, he said, and shouldn’t automatically be treated as sinister. Many pain experts and health researchers say that committees for agencies such as CDC should include specialists in pain and pain patients.

Source: Fox News December 12, 2018 14:46 UTC