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Whites more likely to get ER narcotics

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   January 02, 2008

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, according to a study. The analysis of more than 150,000 emergency room visits over 13 years found differences in prescribing by race and ethnicity in both urban and rural hospitals.

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