# CDC Opioid Guideline — user reviews > 13 indexed App Store user reviews of CDC Opioid Guideline by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rated 2.55/5 from 22 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cdc-opioid-guideline/id1185581887/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cdc-opioid-guideline/id1185581887.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 9 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Harmful to medical patients *2023-08-01* Many patients are suffering in pain and the CDC is perpetuating it. ### 1/5 — out of date with its own recommendations? *2023-05-26* How can it be that this calculator doesn’t include CDC’s own changes in recommendations from 2022? ### 1/5 — Irresponsible *2023-03-22* Outdated guidelines need to be removed. I think the CDC has enough taxpayer money to update this. This is essentially misinformation to leave it as it stands. ### 1/5 — Need updates *2022-11-08, version 1.2.2* Guidelines on opioids have been updated. Need to update this too ### 1/5 — Bad guidelines *2022-05-02, version 1.2.2* It is very unfortunate that the CDC continues to put these guidelines out. They are wrong and their stats are incorrect. By creating this “tool” they are making misinformation more readily available. People are committing suicide because of these faulty guidelines. It’s hurting chronic pain patients, cancer patients, surgical patients, and even terminally ill patients. Enough damage has already been done. ### 1/5 — Awful for the permanent disabled *2018-05-29, version 1.0.2* Som patient that have been on meds for 20 years or 15 ,This doesn’t work ,it is perfect for acute pain but not chronic pain patient, cdc and Trump is killing the disabled with this ,there are suicide daily, please tell Cdc to make another for chronic disease ### 2/5 — Update this *2022-03-10, version 1.2.2* This is grossly outdated for the hundreds of thousands of chronic pain patients. Doctors are using this app to backup malpractice ### 2/5 — Does not reflect current guidelines or best practices *2020-11-23, version 1.1.1* It has been widely acknowledged that the initial CDC Opioid Guidelines were both carelessly written & adopted, and wildly and widely both misinterpreted and misapplied, particularly by State Regulatory agencies (including medical boards) & Law Enforcement, and especially as they were applied to stable, long term chronic pain patients, under the care of skilled, board certified pain management specialists who were at low risk for and had no history of serious drug abuse. Untold and unimaginable harm has been done to many of these patients who rely, or relied, on opioid medications to maintain some increased level of functionality in their lives. Most of whom have no FDA approved treatment either for their specific condition, or the symptoms associated with it. These patients suddenly, whether it was instant or tapered over a few days or weeks, had medication’s which they had been stable on for decades reduced to below the 90 mmeq or cut off completely. Many doctor’s & practices stopped practicing pain management completely or stopped prescribing pain medications, simply leaving patients to suffer. Of course the solution of actually practicing Medicine, and having an honest conversation with a patient about the medications they are being prescribed, the benefits & risks associated with them, how to use, start and stop them in a responsible manner never seems to occur to any of the powers that be. Updated guidelines have been released (closing the barn door after the horses are out & the barn’s burning down) from both the CDC & NIH which this app DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT. TO PREVENT FURTHER HARM TO THE PUBLIC, THIS APP SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE APP STORE UNTIL IT REFLECTS THE MOST UP TO DATE GUIDANCE FROM THE CDC & NIH (a consensus of both), ALONG WITH SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO REMEDIATE THE DAMAGE WHICH THE ORIGINAL OPIOID GUIDELINES & THIS APP HAVE DONE ### 2/5 — Pharmacist *2019-01-17, version 1.1.1* Really useful for the MME calculator, unless the rx is for tramadol. Please add tramadol to the MME calculator!! ### 3/5 — Update please. *2021-11-20, version 1.2.2* Can you date documents and calculator to the most recent guidelines in 2021. I’m seeing 2017 information. ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pharmacist use: I love it! *2018-03-22, version 1.0.2* I am a pharmacist and I’ve been using this app everyday in my practice to determine the correct therapy of opioid use. Both patients and providers need a lot of advice. This app helps empower me to give them the correct information. ### 5/5 — Exactly what Prescribers Need *2017-01-20, version 1.0.2* This app is designed perfectly to help make prescribers make informed decisions on patient pain management. It fits the meat of the guideline into a pocket-sized resource that allows clinicians to make decisions TOGETHER with the patient. The features are great (MME calculator), and it's easy to use. ### 4/5 — R Michael Green,MD *2018-09-11, version 1.1.1* Please add tramadol to MME calculator! As you know it is now a controlled med --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*