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CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016
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IMPORTANCE: Primary care clinicians find managing chronic pain challenging. Evidence of long-term efficacy of opioids for chronic pain is limited. Opioid use is associated with serious risks, including opioid use disorder and overdose. OBJECTIVE: To provide recommendations about opioid prescribing for primary care clinicians treating adult patients with chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. PROCESS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated a 2014 systematic review on effectiveness and risks of opioids and conducted a supplemental review on benefits and harms, values and preferences, and costs. CDC used the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) framework to assess evidence type and determine the recommendation category. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: Evidence consisted of observational studies or randomized clinical trials with notable limitations, characterized as low quality using GRADE methodology. Meta-analysis was not attempted due to the limited number of studies, variability in study designs and clinical heterogeneity, and methodological shortcomings of studies. No study evaluated long-term (≥1 year) benefit of opioids for chronic pain. Opioids were associated with increased risks, including opioid use disorder, overdose, and death, with dose-dependent effects. RECOMMENDATIONS: There are 12 recommendations. Of primary importance, nonopioid therapy is preferred for treatment of chronic pain. Opioids should be used only when benefits for pain and function are expected to outweigh risks. Before starting opioids, clinicians should establish treatment goals with patients and consider how opioids will be discontinued if benefits do not outweigh risks. When opioids are used, clinicians should prescribe the lowest effective dosage, carefully reassess benefits and risks when considering increasing dosage to 50 morphine milligram equivalents or more per day, and avoid concurrent opioids and benzodiazepines whenever possible. Clinicians should evaluate benefits and harms of continued opioid therapy with patients every 3 months or more frequently and review prescription drug monitoring program data, when available, for high-risk combinations or dosages. For patients with opioid use disorder, clinicians should offer or arrange evidence-based treatment, such as medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine or methadone. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The guideline is intended to improve communication about benefits and risks of opioids for chronic pain, improve safety and effectiveness of pain treatment, and reduce risks associated with long-term opioid therapy.
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“Of primary importance, nonopioid therapy is preferred for treatment of chronic pain. Opioids should be used only when benefits for pain and function are expected to outweigh risks.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > RECOMMENDATIONS
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“When opioids are used, clinicians should prescribe the lowest effective dosage, carefully reassess benefits and risks when considering increasing dosage to 50 morphine milligram equivalents or more per day,”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > RECOMMENDATIONS
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“Several nonpharmacologic and nonopioid pharmacologic treatments were found to be effective for chronic pain in studies ranging in duration from 2 weeks to 6 months48–66 (Table 3).”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Guideline Development Process > Contextual Evidence Review
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“No study evaluated long-term (≥1 year) benefit of opioids for chronic pain.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS
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“The recommendations in the guideline are voluntary, rather than prescriptive standards. They are based on emerging evidence, including observational studies or randomized clinical trials with notable limitations.”
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“Studies examining patients who underwent low-risk surgery or experienced low back pain from injury revealed that opioid therapy prescribed for acute pain was associated with greater likelihood of long-term use.”
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“No study evaluated the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Guideline Development Process > Clinical Evidence Review
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“Evidence consisted of observational studies or randomized clinical trials with notable limitations, characterized as low quality using GRADE methodology.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS
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“Opioids were associated with increased risks, including opioid use disorder, overdose, and death, with dose-dependent affects.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS
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“Before starting opioids, clinicians should establish treatment goals with patients and consider how opioids will be discontinued if benefits do not outweigh risks.”
§ CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 > Abstract > RECOMMENDATIONS
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“A study of almost 100,000 patients found that the average rate of tapering was 34.0% of the original dose per month and more than a quarter of patients were tapering at a rate faster than 40% of their original dose per month,43,49 even higher than the maximum rate recommended by the CDC. 1”
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“However, opioids are significantly less effective against chronic pain, such as neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, and low-back pain, and tolerance develops to the analgesic effects of opioids, thus necessitating the need for increasingly higher doses to sustain analgesia (McQuay, 1988;Dowell et al., 2016).”
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“The influential Centres for Disease Control (CDC) Guideline for Prescribing Opioids recommends a linear reduction of opioid doses: ‘A decrease of 10% of the original dose per week’ or ‘slower tapers (e.g. 10% per month)’ for longer term users (Figure 1(a)). 1”
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“Opioids are also associated with substantial systemic harm such as worsening psychopathology, addiction, tolerance, and premature death. 24”
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“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US Food and Drug Administration issued warnings in 2016 to make prescribers and patients aware of these risks.19,34”
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“evidence of their longterm efficacy and safety is limited.6”
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“Although opioids are considered to be useful in managing a wide continuum of pain, including acute, procedural, and chronic pain”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dowell, D., Haegerich, T. M., & Chou, R.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dowell, Deborah
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2016-04-19
- Volume
- 315
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 1624
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- PMC
- PMC6390846
- OpenAlex
- W2296986887
- Cited by
- 5,161
- References
- 215
- Citations by year
- 2026: 137 · 2025: 233 · 2024: 272 · 2023: 347 · 2022: 407 · 2021: 733 · 2020: 825 · 2019: 762 · 2018: 701 · 2017: 525 · 2016: 214
- FWCI
- 723.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- U.S. Public Health Service (200-2013-M-53890, 15IPA-1505478, 290201200014I)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Keywords
- opioid prescribing, chronic pain, opioid use disorder, opioid overdose, benzodiazepines, prescription drug monitoring programs, buprenorphine, methadone, medication-assisted treatment, low-dose opioids, primary care
- MeSH terms
- Contraindications, Adult, Analgesics, Opioid, Benzodiazepines, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Communication, Drug Therapy, Combination, Goals, Humans, Drug Prescriptions, Primary Health Care, United States, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Treatment Outcome, Withholding Treatment, Chronic Pain, Acute Pain, Prescription Drug Misuse, Observational Studies as Topic
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