CDC tells doctors to stop testing patients for marijuana

CDC tells doctors to stop testing patients for marijuana - Health Council

As part of its plan to change the healthcare community€™s cavalier attitude towards the distribution of dangerous prescription painkillers, the federal government has advised physicians across the United States to stop testing their patients for marijuana. Buried inside the language of this attempt to put a leash on the prescription painkiller epidemic, the CDC urged doctors to modify their drug screening policies in an effort to prevent those testing positive for THC metabolites from being disqualified from treatment. Although the agency wrote that it still believes urine testing is necessary to discover any “undisclosed uses€ of illicit substances, it specifically states that this rule no longer applies to THC.

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