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By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — Within the U.S. medical community, there has been much anticipation of the CDC correcting its 2016 guidelines for opioid prescription. That moment has finally arrived. The new guidelines, published Feb. 10 and subject to a 60-day open-comment review period, no longer recommend limiting daily dose thresholds to the equivalent of 90 morphine milligrams. A previous suggestion to limit drugs foråç acute, short-term pain patients of a supply of opioids of just a few days has also been removed. Opioids are power pain relieves, but are addictive and there has b…