NLM’s Director’s Comments: Ethnicity and Pain Relievers
Listen to the NLM Director’s Comments on Ethnicity and Pain Relievers. The transcript is also available. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript021408.html
Emergency room patients, who are white, receive more pain relievers than other Americans, finds a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers primarily based at the University of California-San Francisco found all emergency room patients received significantly more pain relievers nationwide during a 13 year period.
MedlinePlus contains two health topic pages that provide insights on both pain management and the problems associated with prescription and non-prescription narcotic drugs. MedlinePlus’ pain health topic page contains a good overview of pain management while MedlinePlus’ drug abuse health topic page drug abuse health topic page adds information on the serious side effects from narcotic prescription and illegal street drugs.
