Feds working on guidelines for painkiller prescriptions

Thursday, August 12, 2004

WASHINGTON -- New guidelines seek to improve treatment for millions of Americans with unrelieved pain by spelling out exactly how to prescribe powerful painkillers like Oxycontin and morphine without attracting the wrath of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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