"We don't carry that"--failure of pharmacies in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods to stock opioid analgesics.

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Published in N Engl J Med on April 06, 2000

Authors

R S Morrison1, S Wallenstein, D K Natale, R S Senzel, L L Huang

Author Affiliations

1: Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. sean.morrison@mssm.edu

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