I’m unaware of research done on the negative effects of black-and-white screen usage, but I am aware of phone screens’ harmful impact on eye health. Another response indicated that at 12:28 p.m., far ...

Historically, addiction in Black communities has been criminalized rather than treated as a health condition. This criminalization, rooted in systemic racism, ...

While white and Black people report roughly the same rates of illicit drug use, ... Black people with opioid addiction have historically been directed to programs that offer methadone, ...

In these communities, Black drug users are no more a medical anomaly than white drug users, and yet due to the low density, they can’t help but stand out. As Luke, a 25-old Black man in our ...

For white patients, the median treatment duration was about 53 days; for Black patients, about 44 days; and for Hispanic patients, less than 40. “There’s no debate here. Fifty days is not long ...

In a fresh move to enable addiction, city Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan just unveiled a vending machine that dispenses free Narcan and drug-test strips — along with “safe-smoking” pipes ...

Black and white thinking is a thought pattern that makes people think in absolutes. For instance, you may think you are either always right or the world’s biggest failure.

Yet Woodyear, who is Black and practices in a town that is 31 percent Black, says his patients are 90 percent white. People come to the clinic through word of mouth or referrals from friends.

Black people are far less likely than other Americans to receive buprenorphine, a key medication for treating opioid use disorder, according to a new study. White patients in need of addiction ...

The randomly selected sample included 11 million prescriptions from more than 240,000 patients, who were 84.1% white, 8.1% Black, 6.3% Hispanic and 1.5% other races and ethnicities.

Black men in California are 42% more likely, and Latino men 32.5% more likely, to be sentenced to prison than white men with similar criminal records and convictions.

Black and Hispanic patients receive shorter addiction medication treatment than white patients, according to a study published Nov. 9 in JAMA Psychiatryry. The study looked at the duration of ...