Mushmouth
11-12-2017, 07:51 AM
When you ignore black people's pain you get a mostly white opioid crisis
43% of the black patients received no pain medication whereas only 26% of white patients went untreated for pain." That finding caused the report's lead author to conclude, "Patient ethnicity affects decision making, independent of objective clinical criteria."
"Black children are less likely to receive any pain medication for moderate pain and less likely to receive opioids for severe pain,
many black Americans have come to see the country's epidemic of opioid deaths as happening exclusively among white people, and the sudden wave of compassion for drug users is causing a lot on anger in black communities that were decimated by policies that put black drug users in prison.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/11/opioid_black_white_pain.html
43% of the black patients received no pain medication whereas only 26% of white patients went untreated for pain." That finding caused the report's lead author to conclude, "Patient ethnicity affects decision making, independent of objective clinical criteria."
"Black children are less likely to receive any pain medication for moderate pain and less likely to receive opioids for severe pain,
many black Americans have come to see the country's epidemic of opioid deaths as happening exclusively among white people, and the sudden wave of compassion for drug users is causing a lot on anger in black communities that were decimated by policies that put black drug users in prison.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/11/opioid_black_white_pain.html