Whites more likely to get ER narcotics (AP)

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Reply Wed 2 Jan, 2008 02:15 am
Whites more likely to get ER narcotics
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AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.

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