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These findings are important because they suggest that efforts to promote equitable health care in the U.S. over the past two decades, such as the Affordable Care Act, or ‘Obamacare,’ do not appear to have translated to clinical practice – at least with regards to pain management in hospital emergency departments The following article, written by Trevor […]
These findings are important because they suggest that efforts to promote equitable health care in the U.S. over the past two decades, such as the Affordable Care Act, or ‘Obamacare,’ do not appear to have translated to clinical practice – at least with regards to pain management in hospital emergency departments The following article, written by Trevor […]
White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26 percent 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 25 percent more likely than […]
White 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 25% more likely than white patients […]
The year after the onset of the pandemic marked the first time Black Kentuckians were dying from opioid-related overdoses at rates higher than white Kentuckians, according to Bryan Hubbard of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission. In 2021, he said the rate of opioid-related deaths among Black people in Kentucky was 50.2 individuals per 100,000 […]
Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a shelf at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S., April 25, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
Pedestrians walk across the street on Times Square in New York, the United States, March 24, 2021. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua) Black and brown . . .
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3/6/2023 PITTSBURGH — The monthly opioid overdose death (ODD) rate fell by 30% in Pennsylvania counties that implemented a novel community-focused strategy developed by University of Pittsburgh researchers, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. By analyzing counties that did or didn’t implement the Pennsylvania Opioid […]