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Public commenters press board on opioid-settlement effects, pain-guideline rollout, long COVID education and complaint-form redesign
Summary
Public commenters at the Medical Board of California’s quarterly meeting urged the board to investigate harms from the National Opioid Settlements injunctive relief, to push a stronger rollout of opioid prescribing guidelines, to add AB 3119 (long COVID continuing education) to the board’s legislative agenda, and to include patient advocates in the complaint-form redesign.
Public comment at the Medical Board of California’s quarterly meeting covered a range of health-policy topics. Several speakers raised concerns about the National Opioid Settlements injunctive relief and its effects on prescribing and medication access. Other commenters urged the board to do more outreach about the board’s July 2023 controlled-substance prescribing guidelines and to ensure those guidelines support individualized care for chronic pain patients.
Pat Irving, an RN and member of the National Campaign to Protect People in Pain, told the board the settlement’s injunctive relief uses an algorithm to identify “suspicious…
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