Painkillers Understocked in Minority Areas, Study Says
Marc Kaufman; The Washington Post; page A04; 2005-10-14. Posted: 2005-01-14.
“Green and other researchers said that the new study, published this week in the Journal of Pain, is consistent with earlier studies showing that doctors were less likely to prescribe opioid painkillers to minorities than to whites.”
See also:
Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment - Vince Bonham; J. Law, Med. and Ethics; 2001.
There’s No Justice in the War on Drugs - Can our laws be moral if they have so racist an effect? - Milton Friedman, NYTimes, 1998.
Major Media on the War on Doctors and the Pain Crisis, 2005-2006
SARAM: the Society for the Abdication of Responsibility for Addiction Medicine
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