Opioid Task Force, Recent Studies, and CDC Opioid Recommendations

By |February 16th, 2017|CDC, centers for disease control and prevention, chronic pain, Health, opioid, task force, Uncategorized, work comp, Workers' Compensation|0 Comments

The North Carolina Industrial Commission recently joined many other states (i.e. Massachusetts) in tackling the issue of opioids in the workers'’ compensation cases by creating a Workers’ Compensation Opioid Task Force. The goal of the task force is to “study and recommend solutions for the problems arising from the intersection of the opioid epidemic [...]