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On November 29, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop to explore the tension between efforts to address the opioid epidemic and the resulting impact on access to pain medications for people facing serious illness. The workshop examined the unintended consequences of the responses to the opioid epidemic for patients, families, communities, and clinicians, and considered potential policy opportunities to address them.