New Painkiller Guidelines

Guest: Anita Gupta, PharmD, Professor of Pain Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and Co-chair of the American Society of Anesthesiology’s task force on prescription opioid abuse  Prescription drug abuse is such a big problem that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just issued new guidelines urging primary care doctors to avoid prescribing painkillers called opioids for patients with chronic pain.