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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). Although this reduced Washington state’s Medicaid costs, it contributed “to the deaths of at least 2,173 people between 2003 and late 2011 (23, 25).”

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