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PROP’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences

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PROP Appears on the Opioid Policy Scene In 2011, a group of internists, including Michael Van Korff, Andrew Kolodny and Roger Chou, co-authored an article that modern palliative care physicians would recognize as a “warning shot (6)” in the world of opioid policy (7).

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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).” Seattle Times, December 21, 2011. 2011 Sep 6;155(5):325-8. 2016 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Hospice Palliative Nurses Association.

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