Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds

Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.
Source: NYT Health - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: your-feed-science Buprenorphine (Drug) Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Opioids and Opiates Research Race and Ethnicity Pain-Relieving Drugs Addiction (Psychology) Black People Methadone Hispanic-Americans Minorities Medicare Dartmouth Co Source Type: news