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

GeriPal

People diagnosed in the past 12 months, for example, so our… I think this was published in JAMA Oncology because it’s novel and we don’t have a lot of information about prevalence, but our estimates weren’t particularly precise because of our small sample sizes. Jessie: Rught.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Brian: The standard definition that we take a lot, from the work of David Kissane, has been poor coping, the sense of helplessness or hopelessness, and a lack of purpose and meaning. They really wanted to have informed consent, a trustworthy guide, and a therapeutic setting. Alex: Oh, definitely. What is this?

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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). We have applied CDC’s own ethics and guiding principles to identify these COIs, beginning with its definition of COIs from rules for creating the 2016 Guideline (2, 3). Proposed Medicare Changes to Opioid Prescribing.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

And so Ruth highlighted one of the features of this pragmatic trial that was different than the outpatient trial was that we didn’t need to consent patients and families for participation in this study. And so that’s how we were able to proceed with the study under this waiver of consent. I think you had to be age over 55.

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