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

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Despite PROP’s optimism, CDC observed that “age-adjusted overdose death rates involving synthetic opioids, psychostimulants, cocaine, heroin, and prescription opioids during 2013–2019” increased 1,040%, largely as the result of illicit fentalogues (62-64). Kollas provided testimony at a 2004 Congressional Hearing on OxyContin.

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