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Papers: 27 Mar 2021 - 2 Apr 2021


Human Studies


2021 Mar 26


PM R

Opioid use and social disadvantage in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Authors

Cheng AL, Brady BK, Bradley EC, Calfee RP, Klesges LM, Colditz GA, Prather H
PM R. 2021 Mar 26.
PMID: 33773068.

Abstract

Historically, marginalized patients were prescribed less opioid medication than affluent, white patients. However, because of persistent differential access to non-opioid pain treatments, this direction of disparity in opioid prescribing may have reversed.