Stark Racial, Financial Divides Found in Effective Opioid Addiction Treatment

A new study reveals marked health disparities in who does and doesn’t get medication assisted treatment for opioid addiction. According to data from 2012 to 2015 analyzed by researchers from the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, for every appointment where a person of color received a prescription for the addiction-treatment medication buprenorphine, white patients had thirty-five such appointments.

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