A new study found white patients receive care for an opioid use disorder longer than Black and Hispanic patients.
Health experts say it's recommended those with opioid use disorders take the drug for at least 180 days. The study, however, showed up to about a quarter of patients made it that long.
The randomly selected sample included 11 million prescriptions from more than 240,000 patients, who were 84.1% white, 8.1% Black, 6.3% Hispanic and 1.5% other races and ethnicities. “If it had been another random sample, it would probably look very similar to this one,” said Dr. Silvia Martins, professor of epidemiology and director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, who is unaffiliated with the study. “It shows that there are few Hispanic and Black patients receiving medication at all.”
That there’s still wide disparities in accessing a drug that can be easily taken on a daily basis is concerning, addiction specialists say, especially as research shows overdose deaths disproportionately impact people of color.
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