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

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Responding to an underfunded Medicaid program in 2003, Washington State’s Prescription Drug Preferred Drug List “steered people with state-subsidized health care — Medicaid patients, injured workers and state employees — to methadone” as a money-saving choice versus other opioid analgesics (23-25). Seattle Times, December 21, 2011.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. Franklin also served on the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) via the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (9). Kollas MD, Terri A. Uh … I do have a conflict. They had reviewed potential nonfinancial conflicts carefully (e.g.,

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