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Hospitalizations for Pediatric Opioid Use Disorders: Exploring Racial Disparities among US regions

May 25, 2021

Exposure to prescription opioids in the pediatric population is an important public health concern. Opioid hospitalizations among US children and adolescents have doubled in the last decade. There is an urgent need to better characterize the opioid epidemic in all pediatric populations, across different racial groups and regions in the United States. However, research on … Read more