Strategies for Reducing Opioid Deaths

The Food and Drug Administration supports four strategies to decrease opioid deaths: supporting primary prevention; encouraging harm reduction; advancing development of evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders; and protecting the public from unapproved, diverted, or counterfeit drugs that present overdose risks.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for opioid prescribing.

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The Food and Drug Administration supports primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatments, and protection against unapproved drugs to decrease opioid deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its opioid prescribing guidelines.