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

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This unexpectedly and undesirably increased health insurers’ medication costs, including Medicare and Medicaid (22). By November 2018, misapplication of the 2016 Guideline had begun to cause serious patient harms, including diminished access to medically appropriate opioid analgesia (41).

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