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Confronting the Racial Disparity in Access to Buprenorphine

Wooden game pieces representing inequality. A dark piece stands on two stair-step blocks, facing the barrier of a high wooden wall. The light piece stands on top of the wall, with four stair-step blocks leading the way up.

Addiction doesn’t discriminate, affecting people of all ethnicities and walks of life. But sadly, access to life-saving buprenorphine treatment is less equal. The racial disparity in how the “war on drugs” has been waged and who suffers from it is well documented. Black and White Americans use drugs at roughly similar rates, but Black Americans […]

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