Study finds that whites get more pain narcotics in the ER

A new study has found that white patients are more apt to receive expensive pain-killing narcotic drugs when a visit to the ER is made -- while minorities are less likely to get them.

Products like oxycodone and morphine were prescribed less frequently for minorities, even for cases where intense and localized pain -- like kidney stones -- was found.
The report covered 150,000 ER visits over a period of 13 years to observe its findings. Why there is such a large gap in apparently preferential treatment in the ER when it comes to race is anyone's guess. Regardless, all men (and women) are not created equal a few centuries after those words helped start this country.