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Federal views diverge on proper use of painkillers

The White House has called opioid abuse an “epidemic” and a “growing national crisis” that causes more than 16,500 deaths per year. Meanwhile, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a top-ranking Drug Enforcement Administration official have called on doctors to dramatically scale back their use of prescription opioids.

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