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Confronting Stigma From Opioid Use Disorder in Cancer Care

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He was offered aggressive chemotherapy and a referral to a clinic to address his opioid use disorder but did not follow up in the SUD clinic and later presented to an emergency department after a heroin overdose that reversed with naloxone. Fundamentally, the question is about who we think is deserving and able to receive cancer treatment.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Ruth: There were some people who got comfort palliative care in the nursing home at end of life. We start off discussing the findings of Ruth Palan Lopez’s publication in JAMA IM on the ADVANCE study. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Joan: Thanks.