Black and Hispanic Patients Get Fewer Opioids but More Toxicology Screening for Pain at End of Life
Elisa Becze, BA, ELS, Editor
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Opioids are the recommended treatment of choice for cancer pain at the end of life according to all major guidelines, but Black and Hispanic patients are 13% and 11% less likely than their White counterparts, respectively, to obtain prescription opioids for cancer-related pain at the end of life, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.