Experts: Vast Disparities in Opioid Prescribing Observed for Minority Communities in Past Decade
Allison Ju-Chen Hu, PhD and Yuhua Bao, PhD describe results of their landmark study that found significant differences in opioid prescriptions in racially and ethnically minoritized communities.
In an exclusive Q&A with Pharmacy Times®, investigators Allison Ju-Chen Hu, PhD, postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Yuhua Bao, PhD, health economist at Weill Cornell Medicine, explain the results of a landmark clinical trial finding that majority non-White, minoritized communities across various socioeconomic deprivation levels had significantly lower distribution rates of common opioids than majority White communities. Correspondingly, Hu and Bao found that there was substantially lower availability of commonly prescribed opioid analgesics in majority non-White communities than in majority White communities.1