The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Reconsidering the CDC Guideline

After last year’s talk about the CDC Guideline, a lot has begun to change, begrudgingly. While this is encouraging, there are still both medical and nonmedical people who don’t want to see any changes in the weak to very weak (evidenced-based medicine) CDC Guideline, which has gone far from what it was supposed to be—recommendations for treatment in a primary care providers clinic. They have been “taken over, mandatorily” by a number of significant entities including CMS, various states, and more. Still, there appear to be political and nonpolitical but nonmedical mandated issues that continue to keep these “Guideline” in force. This presentation will discuss these and some possible reasons, both the positive and the negative, including important issues of forced tapering and increased suicides.