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

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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).” Physicians’ primary responsibility is to attend the individualized needs of the patients they are treating. Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin.

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