Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds
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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.
Biden Administration to Offer Plan to Get Addiction-Fighting Medicine to Pregnant Women
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Biden Administration to Offer Plan to Get Addiction-Fighting Medicine to Pregnant Women

Pregnant women are more likely to die of a drug overdose than the average woman of childbearing age, but less likely to be accepted for medication-based treatment.