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

  • Written by Trevor Thompson, Associate Professor of Clinical Research, University of Greenwich
imageDoctors 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 Plus

White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as...

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