Study: Whites more likely to get narcotics in ER

[jerseyrugger76]

Just when I thought the privileges of being a white boy were all but gone

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/01/01/painkillers.race.ap/index.html

 

[FISHTALES]

fuckin a someone shoot me please (in the hand or something)

 

[Jon79]

fuckin a someone shoot me please (in the hand or something)

oh god

 

[FISHTALES]

oh god

 

[Jon79]

i got a pretty extensive exanmination when i went to the er for my back....just for vicodin

they sent some special muscle tester guy in there

 

[javaguru]

Pick3 in 3...2...

 

[mountain muscle]

Just the man trying to keep us down, and drugged up.


Fight The Power!

 

[bw1]

That's because non-whites pockets are full of narcotics when they get to ER

 

[FISHTALES]

That's because non-whites pockets are full of narcotics when they get to ER

racistitist

 

[mountain muscle]

racistitist

Quit being so judgemental Fishy.

 

[Lestat]

hard evidence that racism, although not as bad as in the past, is still with us.

 

[javaguru]

hard evidence that racism, although not as bad as in the past, is still with us.

I think the study also mentioned blacks were least likely to actually abuse prescription pain meds.

 

[mountain muscle]

Who paid for such a refuckindiculous study anyway?

 

[Lestat]

Who paid for such a refuckindiculous study anyway?

minorities?

 

[mountain muscle]

minorities?

I bet not.


The new study was funded by federal grants.

You and I paid for it.

This is nothing that an intra-office memo couldn't resolve.

 

[Cutiebaby]

Wow, I have been to the er many times in severe pain and I was lucky enough to get tylenol..guess I been going to the wrong one..yeah so they should have noted which E.R's they did the survey on!

 

[PICK3]

Java prefers to get the glove wave

 

[needtogetarmy]

hard evidence that racism, although not as bad as in the past, is still with us.

They warped the study. And it stated minorities are less likely to complain of pain, thus less likely to get pain meds.

The press should be shot for printing stuff like this, they are the real racists.

 

[mountain muscle]

They warped the study. And it stated minorities are less likely to complain of pain, thus less likely to get pain meds.

The press should be shot for printing stuff like this, they are the real racists.

Is it racist when even the black doctor in the study says he has preconceived bias?

Sounds more like a social commentary to me. Maybe, just maybe, minorities should work toward bettering themselves instead of finger pointing?

 

[GoldenDelicious]

i was prescribed morphine for a sore throat once

(doctors are so silly sometimes lol)

 

[mountain muscle]

i was prescribed morphine for a sore throat once

(doctors are so silly sometimes lol)

Serioiusly, docs throw out narc scripts like candy. All hail the pharma lobby!

 

[javaguru]

Serioiusly, docs throw out narc scripts like candy. All hail the pharma lobby!

Medicine is big business. Drug addiction to prescription meds is growing faster than the usual suspects and the finger is getting pointed at the doctors and big pharma.

 

[binö]

i wonder if the fact that whites are more likely to have health insurance figures into this study at all

 

[GoldenDelicious]

Serioiusly, docs throw out narc scripts like candy. All hail the pharma lobby!

nah, i just knew which buttons to press

sore throats suck hard, jsut bomb em and get on with your day

was a funny week though lol