Black patients far less likely to receive key opioid addiction medication, study finds
Few people with opioid addiction can access the highly effective drugs used to treat the condition, and those who do receive the medications are disproportionately white.
Black people are far less likely than other Americans to receive buprenorphine, a key medication for treating opioid use disorder, according to a new study.
White patients in need of addiction care were prescribed buprenorphine at more than twice the rate of Black patients in the six months preceding an addiction-related health emergency, according to the analysis. The treatment gap continued at a similar rate in the six months after an overdose, hospitalization, or admission to a rehab facility.
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