ASA committee chair discusses CDC's new opioid prescribing guidelines with media

On Clinical Pain Advisor and Pain Medicine News, David Dickerson, MD, chair of ASA’s Committee on Pain Medicine, shared his perspective on how the proposed guidelines will affect clinical practice and help to address the ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. “The draft guidelines focus on nonopioids for acute pain and impart recommendations for developing and studying meaningful nonopioid therapeutics,” he said. “This is critical work.” (Login or subscription may be required.)