A ‘Rare Case Where Racial Biases’ Protected African-Americans - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/upshot/opioid-epidemic-blacks.html
African-Americans received fewer opioid #prescriptions, some researchers think, because doctors believed, contrary to fact, that black people 1) were more likely to become addicted to the drugs 2) would be more likely to sell the drugs and 3) had a higher pain threshold than white people because they were biologically different.
A fourth possibility is that some white doctors were more empathetic to the pain of people who were like them, and less empathetic to those who weren’t.
#préjugés #biais #racisme #opiacés #opioides #santé #empathie #blancs #noirs #etats-unis