"More frightening was that 47 per cent failed on safety in end of life and that's to do with basic stuff such as people not getting pain relief".
"If you do not have a past history of addiction and are in your forties and getting pain treatment with opioids, your odds of becoming newly addicted are low," Szalavitz told Karla K Johnson of the Associated Press last week.
PAGE A20 Redlining Pain Medication Doctors say patients with severe pain who live in minority neighborhoods may have trouble getting pain medication, because their local pharmacies often do not stock morphine and related drugs.
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Now many of the nation's nursing homes report delays of a day or more in getting pain drugs to patients, according to the Quality Care Coalition for Patients in Pain, a group set up by nursing home operators, pharmacists and nursing groups.
The guidelines cover problems with basic care such as delays getting pain relief.
