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Treatment for Opioid Addiction Often Brings Discrimination

  • WVDII
  • Apr 9, 2022
  • 1 min read

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination.



PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Danielle Russell was in the emergency department at an Arizona hospital last fall, sick with COVID-19, when she made the mistake of answering completely when she was asked what medications she was on.


 
 
 

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