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Philippine Canadian Inquirer White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments Health

Doctors have struggled to find the balance between effective pain management and the very real addiction risks that come with prescription pain medication. BackyardProduction/iStock via Getty Images PlusWhite people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as morphine. This was a key finding from our recent study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We also found that Black patients were 2

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Racial disparities in pain medication remained even after adjusted factors, such as differences in insurance status, patient age, and census region