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Article: Blacks, Hispanics and Other Groups Less Likely to Get Strong Pain Medications in Hospital Emergency Departments
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blacks and
Hispanics who go to hospital emergency departments in pain are
significantly less likely than whites to get pain-relieving opioid
drugs, according to a new study funded by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
The study, which analyzed treatments for more than 150,000 pain-
related visits to U.S. hospitals between 1993 and 2005, found 23
percent of blacks and 24 percent of Hispanics received opioids
compared with 31 percent of whites. Twenty-eight percent of Asians
and other groups received opioids.
This study provides a particularly ...