0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
President Trump’s first week in office included an order suspending all CDC, HHS, and NIH communications: regulations, announcements, reports, advisories, updates, and online posts. This aligns with pruning federal bureaucracy. But silencing these three, of hundreds of agencies, is interesting.COVID was, for many Americans, their first personal experience of vast, unregulated power imposed by federal agencies. Without enforcing laws or interpreting regulations, just publishing claims and data can have unrestrained power. ... One example of the profound impact of CDC publications is the 2016 CDC guidelines for pain treatment with opioids. These guidelines — not regulations, not laws — initiated drastic, ongoing reductions in pain care nationwide.The guidelines discussed pain patients who had never been prescribed opioids. The CDC recommended for these patients doses below 90MME per day. The guidelines didn’t discuss established patients with severe and chronic pain, or the wide genetic variability of sensitivity to pain and sensitivity to opioids. ...The 2016 guidelines didn’t arise in a vacuum. Years of prior CDC publications featured flawed data. ...
Author
Topic: The CDC’s Big Mistake (restrictions on pain care) (Read 388 times)
