✔️Fact-checking @CDCgov's telebriefing on the release of the 2016 Guideline (thread) cdc.gov/media/releases…
3/15/2016: CDC Director Frieden said the Guideline would result in “fewer deaths from all sorts of opiates.”
✔️2018: CDC published a paper showing that #opioid overdose deaths go UP as prescriptions go down. CDC has not yet retracted the Guideline.
✔️2018: CDC published a paper showing that #opioid overdose deaths go UP as prescriptions go down. CDC has not yet retracted the Guideline.
2) Frieden (3/15/2016): “The prescription overdose epidemic is doctor-driven."
✔️US OD deaths have been "inexorably tracking along an exponential growth curve since at least 1979," a "predictable pattern of growth" that's NOT associated with increases OR decreases in scripts.
✔️US OD deaths have been "inexorably tracking along an exponential growth curve since at least 1979," a "predictable pattern of growth" that's NOT associated with increases OR decreases in scripts.
3) Frieden (3/15/2016): The risks of rx #opioid use will outweigh benefits "for the vast majority of patients."
✔️Guideline is based on data showing #opioids are SAFE for the vast majority: average 96% unremarkable use; 4% includes non-addictive long use & physical dependence.
✔️Guideline is based on data showing #opioids are SAFE for the vast majority: average 96% unremarkable use; 4% includes non-addictive long use & physical dependence.
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@NitaGhei 2016 CDC press briefing contains comic relief when @DrOz goes AWOL. Which is handy, since otherwise it contains no relief at all. #tb @headsUPmigraine
@NitaGhei 2016 CDC press briefing contains comic relief when @DrOz goes AWOL. Which is handy, since otherwise it contains no relief at all. #tb @headsUPmigraine
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