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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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And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Oh my gosh, can’t believe I’ve been here more than once now. Bragging rights. 2017 podcast.

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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).”

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