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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ironically, studies have also shown that physicians are more willing to prescribe pain medication to white patients.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/10/black-patients-bias-prescriptions-pain-management-medicine-opioids[/quote]

OK, let's go with that study...

From your article:

“A black patient with the same level of pain and everything else being accounted for was much less likely to receive an opioid prescription than a white patient with the same characteristics,” said study co-author Astha Singhal, an assistant professor at Boston University’s dental medicine school.

To determine whether there was a racial bias in pain medication prescriptions, the researchers looked at more than 60m records of pain-related emergency department visits from 2007 to 2011 for people aged 18 to 65.

Five conditions were examined and divided into two categories: definitive and non-definitive. The first referred to conditions that were easily diagnosed – kidney stones and long-bone fractures – and the second to conditions that are not: toothache, abdominal pain and back pain.

Black patients had about half the odds of being prescribed opioids compared to white patients for non-definitive conditions, according to the study, which Singhal co-authored with Renee Hsia of UC San Francisco and Yu-Yu Tien from the University of Iowa."

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So, what about all the other factors in white vs. black lives?  They are different, you know. Was that covered? Were these standard questionnaires on current health to all the survey participants?

"the researchers looked at more than 60m records of pain-related emergency department visits"   Great, so what was in the records? Were they standardized? Of course not.  What did they choose to count and how did they weigh the factors?  What were the pre-existing condtions?

Why should I put any merit in this study? It's a headline and when it comes to race, you love headlines. Meanwhile, did you dig into the study?

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How in the world would you know what I love?

From the CDC:  [url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6626a4.htm][b]Changes in Opioid Prescribing in the United States, 2006–2015[/b][/url]
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Higher amounts of opioids were prescribed in counties with a larger percentage of non-Hispanic whites; a higher prevalence of diabetes and arthritis; micropolitan counties; and counties with higher rates of unemployment and Medicaid enrollment.[/i]

Kaiser Family Foundation:  [url=http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D][b]Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity[/b][/url]

Should we chalk this up to moral failure?  Poor judgement?  Family values?  Intellectual shortcomings?  You pick.

My thought is that it's a confluence of factors that made non-hispanic whites more susceptible to this scourge.  As with all other social blight, racism was on the table but dutifully ignored as something that's harmful to ALL citizens.  The stigma that's been so well practiced for generations is conveniently all-purpose and helping the epidemic spread.

But hey, if we fix this affirmative action thing everything's cool, right?[/quote]

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