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A panel of pain-management experts has published the first comprehensive clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The long-awaited guideline appears in the current issue of The Journal of Pain and recommends that opioid pain medications are safe and effective for carefully selected, well-monitored patients with chronic non-cancer pain.

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