Minority Patients More Likely to Receive Opioids, Reveals California Study
California study suggests that minority patients are more likely to be prescribed addictive opioid painkillers than non-minorities.
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California study suggests that minority patients are more likely to be prescribed addictive opioid painkillers than non-minorities.
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