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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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In 2002, 1% of adults were taking gabapentinoids (gabapentin and or pregabalin). It’s not a controlled substance medication. Eric: So I heard gabapentin is the 10th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. And one of these medications that has been hoped to be a huge change to decrease opioid use is gabapentin.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. So when I got to a residency and at that point I was in residency 1999 to 2002 and we were being taught to screen everyone no matter what. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs.