The decision by the New Hampshire Board of Medicine suggests state officials are beginning to recognize the harm caused by the crackdown on pain pills.
The agency’s acknowledgment of the suffering caused by its prescribing advice may be too little, too late.
The CDC decries abrupt, involuntary dose reductions and patient abandonment without acknowledging its responsibility for those unintended but foreseeable consequences.
The CDC's advice has been widely interpreted as requiring involuntary tapering of medication so it does not exceed an arbitrary threshold.
One survey shows cigarette use holding steady, while another shows it continuing to fall.
The doctors' lobby is right that the arbitrary rule is medically unsound and misconstrues the CDC's guidelines.
Disasters result from policies adopted and choices made before and after a natural hazard strikes.
Regulatory precaution, not rising temperatures, is the main driver for the increase in vector-borne disease.
CDC surveys in the 1990s, never publicly reported, indicate nearly 2.5 million defensive uses of guns a year. That matches the results of Gary Kleck's controversial surveys, and it indicates more defensive than offensive uses of guns.
The government's efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous.
Largely due to increases in opioid overdose deaths
Due to lack of information from death certificates, only half are properly recorded.
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
The CDC supplies more evidence that the war on drugs is making heroin more lethal.
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
Because lawmakers didn't understand that the future might bring new, better products, we'll soon be stuck with only the old, dirty options.
Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
The failure of consensus nutrition "science" and the ongoing collapse of dietary puritanism.
An estimated 111,000 excess premature deaths occurred in white individuals between 1999 and 2014
A new study that links e-cigarettes to smoking has things backward.
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.
A new study makes the CDC's equation of vaping with tobacco use look even more ridiculous.
Rose last year as a result of drug overdosing and stalled progress on heart disease
If only there were a technology that could reduce the numbers of these deadly mosquitoes
The CDC's data belie its warnings about e-cigarettes.
Meanwhile FDA bows to anti-biotech activist fears and won't expedite approval of proven technology
The agency bizarrely counts tobacco-free, noncombustible e-cigarettes as a kind of tobacco.
It's based on research and sharing information, not on more regulations.
To shrink the supply of opioids, the agency encourages doctors to be suspicious and stingy.
The new guidelines on alcohol consumption for young women are silly, but the CDC has been issuing similar rules for years.
The same survey finds that never-smokers rarely become regular vapers.
Or least they are in Rhode Island, say state health officials.
The CDC misleads the public about the hazards of vaping.
Transportation officials are at the whim of self-reported data.
Controlling contagious diseases is just one of many items on the agency's to-do list.
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