Resources: Policies and Guidelines – National Pain Organization

https://nationalpain.org/resources-policies-and-guidelines

• CDC Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (2016)

• CDC’s press release and accompanying article on misuse of its opioid prescribing guideline (2019) & intent to update (2020)
• FDA Warning on dangers of abrupt tapering (2019)
• HHS Guideline on Tapering (2019)
• Canadian Opioid Prescribing Guideline (2017)
• VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline on opioid prescribing (2017)
• HHS Interagency Task Force Report on Pain Management Best Practices (2019)
• National Pain Strategy (2016)
• Institute of Medicine Report on Pain (2011)