"Black people 'less effective' pain treatment than white people after surgery"

A study found that black patients receive less effective pain treatment than white patients in the process of recovering from surgery was presented at the American Society of Anesthesiology's annual meeting on the 20th local time.

A five-year analysis of 482 black and 2,460 white people who underwent thoracic or abdominal incisions at Johns Hopkins Hospital from July 2016 showed that black patients were 74% more likely to receive opioid drugs than white patients.

Conversely, the likelihood of receiving four or more pain treatments at the same time was 29% smaller for Black people compared to White people.

Experts believe that a combination of pain-relieving pain-relieving pain therapy by using different types of drugs reduces the use of highly addictive opioids and is more effective in pain management.

The researchers said, "There is an ethnic gap in the application of complex pain therapy," but added that further research is needed to see if similar differences are seen in other races and ethnicities.