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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Preventing Overprescribing for Pain Act of 2016</b></p> This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue guidelines for the safe prescribing of opioids for the treatment of acute pain. (Opioids are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as certain pain medications.)]]></text>
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