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[quote=Anonymous]Given the long thread we had a week or so ago I thought this was an interesting conversation. http://www.npr.org/2017/11/04/562137082/why-is-the-opioid-epidemic-overwhelmingly-white [quote]Something that we do know is that doctors prescribe narcotics more cautiously to their non-white patients. It would seem that if the patient is black, the doctor is more concerned about the patient becoming addicted, or maybe they're more concerned about the patient selling their pills, or maybe they are less concerned about pain in that population. But the black patient is less likely to be prescribed narcotics, and therefore less likely to wind up becoming addicted to the medication. So what I believe is happening is that racial stereotyping is having a protective effect on non-white populations.[/quote][/quote]
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