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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable.

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

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For example, in late 2015, Washington Legal Foundation alleged that one of the members of CDC’s Core Expert Group (later identified as PROP member, Jane Ballantyne) had “served as a paid consultant to a law firm planning multi-district litigation against opioid manufacturers (4, 33, 34).” Anderson Cancer Center Orlando.

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