“The new guidelines will not place formal new restrictions on prescriptions by physicians who treat patients for pain, but administration officials announcing the change made clear they hope to chasten physicians who prescribe the medications for anything other than ongoing, intractable pain.  The revision made by the FDA would not just remove ‘moderate pain’ from the agency’s list of approved uses for the medications: It aims to get patients and their physicians to focus not only on levels of pain, but on how long it can be expected to persist and what alternatives exist to relieve it.”

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-fda-opioid-narcotic-pain-20130910,0,6186811.story

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