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 to be given only non-opioid painkillers such as ibuprofen, which are typically available over the counter.

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      1 year ago

      Your dumb ass said, in regards to narcotic painkillers:

      Those are for extremely acute use (e.g. surgery) or for terminal cases.

      Narcotics are for a matter of hours or days. Unless they’re palliative.

      Which is not how reality works, at all.

      Our friend gave us a very personal example as to why.

      It literally doesn’t matter if they’re addictive or not, normal people need narcotics for severe pain and it’s unethical to deny them to curb addiction numbers.