Study: Whites more likely to get narcotics in ER

• Story Highlights
• Analysis: ER docs prescribe narcotics for pain more often for whites than non-whites
  
• Differences found in urban, rural hospitals, in all U.S. regions, for every type of pain
  
• Overall prescribing of narcotics for pain rose from 23 percent to 37 percent
  
• Study examined more than 150,000 emergency room visits over 13 years
  
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