About this episode
BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 CDC Opioid Guideline Update is published!!! Unless you’d like to read all 100 pages of the guideline publication on your own, you may want to start by listening to this episode at least once. Join the Mark “Pain Guy” Garofoli on the Pain Pod for a dynamic dissection of the 2022 CDC Opioid Guideline Update. Not a ton of actual updates compared to the 2016 guideline, but a half dozen that every clinician needs to be aware of, along with a handful a very specific reference checks leading to rather riveting conversations in the near future for you. “Pain Guy” will review all aspects of this incredibly important advancement in pain management so that you can correlate to your own patient care, educational efforts, or whatever setting you’re in NOW. You may want to listen to this episode twice, and share it will everyone (seriously, all clinicians need to listen in, and patients in pain alike)!!! Come one, come all, to the Pain Pod!!! 2022 CDC Opioid Guideline Revision Resources 2022 CDC Opioid Guideline Update: CDC Chronic Pain Opioid Guidelines: MMWR March 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.rr7103a1 CDC Opioid Guideline Update Timeline: https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/guideline-update/index.html CDC Drug Overdose Deaths Data (Including Prescription Opioids): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm Initial Rx Opioid Duration compared to Probability of Continued Use: Shah A, et al. Characteristics of Initial Prescription Episodes and Likelihood of Long-Term Opioid Use — United States, 2006–2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66: 265–269. Opioid and Benzo Combination tripling overdose death rate: Tae Woo Park, et al. Benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and deaths from drug overdose among US veterans receiving opioid analgesics: case-cohort study. BMJ 2015;350:h2698. 2016 CDC Chronic Pain Opioid Guideline: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/rr/rr6501e1.htm