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

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Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. But patients have reported that they still recounted that event as something that was quite transformative and beneficial for them as well. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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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). Thus, we envision creating an ethics-based, education-focused informed consent process that allows patients to weigh treatment risks versus potential benefits collaboratively to enhance opioid prescribing safety (165).

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

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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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