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Right now, the CDC is hoping its new guidance for doctors will help cut down on grim statistics and the number of overdoses we are seeing daily. In the past few years, it has been tough for patients with chronic pain to receive opioids, but now it will be easier for people who actually need those drugs. Reporter Caitlin Keenaghan explains the changes for these opioid prescriptions. In the 1990s, opioids hit the market, drugs like Oxycontin, codeine and hydrocodone. Back in the early 1990s, there was a very loose approach to prescribing opioids. Doctor Stephanie Vanterpool is the director of Pain Services at UT Medical Center. She watched the prescription pendulum swing. There was some miss marketing of opioids. So did the director of the Metro Drug Coalition, Karen Pershing. During that time, everybody was prescribing. And for everything teenagers were getting them for getting their wisdom teeth out, then came the discovery. So you saw increase in prescribing, increase in sales of of p