Socioeconomics
Pharmacies in Minority Neighborhoods Less Likely to Have Sufficient Opioids to Treat Severe Pain
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 16th, 2000
"We have observed that many black and Hispanic patients receiving palliative care at a major urban teaching hospital are unable to obtain prescribed opioids from their neighborhood pharmacies," reported R.S. Morrison and colleagues at the City University of New York ("'We don't carry that''' - Failure of pharmacies in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods to stock opioid analgesics," N Engl J...
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