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Minorities saw steeper drop in access to opioid use disorder meds during pandemic
New research from Thuy Nguyen
Relative to white patients, racial and ethnic groups saw a sharper decline in access to medicines to treat opioid use disorder during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic—intensifying pre-pandemic disparities, says a University of Michigan researcher.