Racial Inequality in Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

An analysis of 2016–2019 Medicare claims data for patients with opioid use disorder showed that receipt of medications to treat OUD was more frequent among White patients than among Black and Hispanic patients.

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2023-05, Vol.388 (19), p.1779-1789
Hauptverfasser:	Barnett, Michael L., Meara, Ellen, Lewinson, Terri, Hardy, Brianna, Chyn, Deanna, Onsando, Moraa, Huskamp, Haiden A., Mehrotra, Ateev, Morden, Nancy E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Addiction Aged Analgesics Analgesics, Opioid - administration & dosage Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use and Inclusion and Inclusion General Beneficiaries Benzodiazepines Benzodiazepines - administration & dosage Benzodiazepines - therapeutic use Black or African American - statistics & numerical data Black people Buprenorphine Buprenorphine - therapeutic use Chronic illnesses Clinical Medicine Clinical Medicine General Detoxification Diversity Drug abuse Drug addiction Drug overdose Drug use Emergency medical care Equity Ethnicity Health care Health facilities Healthcare Disparities - ethnology Healthcare Disparities - statistics & numerical data Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data Humans Inequality Infections Long term health care Low income groups Medicaid Medicare Medicare - statistics & numerical data Mental health Methadone Minority & ethnic groups Mortality Naloxone Naloxone - therapeutic use Naltrexone Naltrexone - therapeutic use Narcotic Antagonists - administration & dosage Narcotic Antagonists - therapeutic use Narcotics Opiate Overdose - epidemiology Opiate Overdose - ethnology Opiate Overdose - etiology Opiate Overdose - prevention & control Opioid-Related Disorders - complications Opioid-Related Disorders - drug therapy Opioid-Related Disorders - epidemiology Opioid-Related Disorders - ethnology Opioids Overdose Pharmacy Prescriptions Psychiatry Race Racial differences Rehabilitation Subsidies Substance use disorder United States - epidemiology White - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:	An analysis of 2016–2019 Medicare claims data for patients with opioid use disorder showed that receipt of medications to treat OUD was more frequent among White patients than among Black and Hispanic patients.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMsa2212412