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Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

The Dig

The Deep Legacy of Racism in Pain Management

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OxyContin is a great example of how everybody pays because black and brown people's pain is neglected as Helena was saying. And white people's pain isn't attended to in a way that doesn't serve their interests. There's research showing that patients with long bone fracture are less likely to be prescribed pain medicine than white patients. So then this racist understanding of how white versus black people experience pain ironically makes white people more vulnerable to this new wave of prescription opioid addiction.

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