Roughly one in five Americans know someone who is addicted to opioids or painkillers – and white people are twice as likely to have been exposed to the disease as black and Hispanic people, according to a new study. She co-authored a separate study that found white medical students and medical residents were less likely to recommend opioids as the appropriate treatment for black patients - compared to white patients - 15 percent of the time. Her research also found many white medical students and residents held false beliefs about black patients feeling less pain than white patients. 'There's definitely evidence of an over-prescription for white patients but there's also an under-prescription for black patients,' Hoffman said. 'Those who do (know someone with opioid addiction) have somewhat less favorable assessments of economic conditions,' said Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard in a statement.

Source: Daily Mail May 25, 2018 15:22 UTC