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WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2026 (HealthDay News) —For many patients with sickle cell disease, a trip to the emergency room has an unwanted side-effect: In their search for relief from agonizing pain, they are often dismissed as drug-seekers.
A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine suggests that clinician bias, fueled largely by the stigma of opioid use, is causing these patients — most of whom are Black folks — to be treated differently than others.
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