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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.

Jan Hoffman
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Black People, Dartmouth College, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Harvard University, Hispanic-Americans, Medicare, Methadone, Minorities, New England Journal of Medicine, Opioids and Opiates, Pain-Relieving Drugs, Race and Ethnicity, Research
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