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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. 1.31) and hospitalizations (aIRR 0.74, 95% CI: 0.54-1.02). Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law

A May 2019 CMS final rule that would have required drug TV advertisements to disclose the WAC of the drug was challenged by a group of pharmaceutical companies and vacated on statutory grounds by the D.C. Controlling Medicare Part D Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs and Total Drug Costs.