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How Racial Bias Has Shaped the Opioid Epidemic

February 18, 2019 by ATForum

IMPLICIT BIASES IN doctor’s offices and elsewhere in health care are likely drivers behind stark racial and class divides in drug addiction and overdose deaths in California, a new study suggests.

While affecting people across race and ethnicity, the opioid crisis gripping the nation has been concentrated largely among low-income whites, and has been labeled a problem primarily of public health, not of criminal justice. The epidemic is thought to have been touched off by a combination of social factors – including trauma, poverty and a lack of economic opportunity – and the widespread availability of prescription opioids beginning in the 1990s.

The new study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, indicates the health care field has had a hand in driving the epidemic that goes beyond merely dispensing prescription drugs, suggesting that differing access to and within the system has resulted in rampant addiction among low-income whites as well as a sea of untreated pain in minority communities.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-02-11/racism-helped-shape-the-opioid-epidemic-study-suggests

Source: US News.com – February 11, 2019

Filed Under: 2019, News Updates

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