Welcome back. Today's module is going to cover clinical guidelines and the utility of providing some guidance or standardization for clinicians when prescribing Opioids. So I want to start off by emphasizing what we've talked about before, which is the importance when we talk about the clinical context in which Opioids are prescribed, the importance of achieving a balanced approach to Opioid prescribing. The importance of recognizing our task with guidelines in addressing the needs of patients who rely on Opioids for their health to control their pain, against the need for public safety and the importance of addressing the oversupply that has really shaped this epidemic over the past couple of decades. So with that in mind, the importance or the value of really looking at providing guidance for clinicians in the area of Opioid prescribing, has emerged as one important opportunity that we can intervene with and provide our clinical partners with concrete useful information as to how to safely and effectively prescribe these medications moving forward. So as you can imagine, this is a giant task to think about, advice, and guidelines for clinical population in this country for an important class of medications. Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has produced a guideline that our group views as very important and useful at this point in time in the history of the Opioid epidemic. The CDC guideline for prescribing Opioids for chronic pain is that tool, it's available online as are several support documents and additional modules that can help providers walk through the guideline and best understand CDC's recommendation on prescribing. I think the best way to introduce you to this guideline, is through a conversation that we recently had with two women who are involved with the development of the guideline. So doctors Jane Loss B and Christina Mikosz are from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and we sat down with them not too long ago to talk about the development of the guideline, how they're disseminating it, how they're hearing about its use, and what their plans are for evaluating the ultimate impact of the guideline on clinician practices with regard to prescribing, and most importantly, the impact on the Opioid epidemic in this country. It's a conversation that is audio only, so what I'd like to share with you during that conversation is one of the tools that CDC has released in conjunction with the guideline. This is a checklist for providers to consider when they're in the process of deciding pain management options for a patient. From my perspective, it's a nice overview of the content that the guideline provides and gives some insight into the types of decisions that providers are faced with when figuring out a treatment regimen for a patient who is presenting for pain, and the types of information that CDC considered when putting together this guideline. Thanks for listening and I know you'll enjoy the conversation that Caleb Alexander and I had with folks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.