Racial Inequality in Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2010, Black persons in the United States have had a greater increase in opioid overdose-related mortality than other groups, but national-level evidence characterizing racial and ethnic disparities in the use of medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) is limited.

Methods

We used Medicare claims data from the 2016-2019 period for a random 40% sample of fee-for-service beneficiaries who were Black, Hispanic, or White; were eligible for Medicare owing to disability; and had an index event related to OUD (nonfatal overdose treated in an emergency department or inpatient setting, hospitalization with injection drug use-related infection, or inpatient or residential rehabilitation or detoxification care). We measured the receipt of medications to treat OUD (bupr

SUBMITTER: Barnett ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10243223 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature