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Ron Wyden: “Not too much, but we also want to make sure patients who are appropriate get treated, and that is why guidelines are…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2016
Not too much, but we also want to make sure patients who are appropriate get treated, and that is why guidelines are necessary to help get the balance right.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden discusses the need for balance in opioid prescribing guidelines.

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