ReviewCureus2018
Racial Bias in the US Opioid Epidemic: A Review of the History of Systemic Bias and Implications for Care.
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Who cites it
77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diversity inclusion in United States opioid pharmacological treatment trials: A systematic review.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Differences in benefits of office based opioid treatment: Secondary analyses across sub-groups in the PROUD randomized controlled implementation trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Trial
- Trends in opioid prescribing after shoulder arthroplasty in an integrated health system: an analysis across racial and ethnic groups.Journal of shoulder and elbow arthroplasty · 2026Article
- Methodological Challenges and Insights in Research on Racial Discrimination and Substance Use Among Black College Students: A Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Policy and practice recommendations for residential addiction treatment: a qualitative investigation on increasing equity in treatment for Black patients.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Article
- Prospective observational study quantifying maternal-fetal fentanyl transmission in epidural analgesia infusion using umbilical cord blood and neonatal meconium.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Observational
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Pain Management Among Older Cancer Survivors.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Leveraging insights from the psychological science of gender stereotyping to advance scholarship on gender-diverse individuals' pain experiences.The journal of pain · 2025Article
- Medicaid Insurance Predicts Increased Postoperative Care Encounters Among Patients on Long-term Opioid Therapy.Annals of surgery · 2025Article
- Can social pain be medicated away? A pilot study on everyday discrimination and its exacerbation of opioid misuse risk in people of color with chronic pain.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Incidence of Opioid Dose Tapering Among Older Adults Enrolled in Medicare.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of the Utilization of Opioid Use Treatment, Harm Reduction, and Culturally Tailored Interventions Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the United States.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2025Article
- Knowledge, experiences, and perceptions of medications for opioid use disorder among Black Kentuckians.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- Increasing support for the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and substance use: Implementation of narrative change strategies in local health departments.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- Transformational narrative changes as a community-level approach to the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and substance use.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- Association Between Emergency Department Operational Metrics and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Interest in Two Rhode Island Hospitals.Rhode Island medical journal (2013) · 2024Observational
- Examining narratives around adverse childhood experiences and social determinants of health in media coverage of substance use in two mid-western cities.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- Review
- A Comparison of Veterans with Problematic Opioid Use Identified through Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes versus Using Diagnostic Codes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Trends in Racial Inequalities in the Administration of Opioid and Non-opioid Pain Medication in US Emergency Departments Across 1999-2020.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The opioid epidemic has been declared a US national public health emergency. Discrepancies in the rates of abuse and access to treatment exist among non-white minorities. A narrative literature review evaluated the minority racial disparities in opioid use, abuse, and care in the US. Racial disparities in the prescription of opioid-containing compounds are dramatic with the non-white individuals being prescribed at half the rate. Historical and cognitive biases may have insulated the non-white minorities, while the minorities have limited access to treatment. Physician bias, media portrayal of opioid abuse disorders, and governmental regulation are a polyfactorial root of racial inequity in the opioid epidemic. As part of the national response, addressing these issues will be an important factor in curbing this epidemic.
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