Category: Drug Access

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2020. It’s an oft-quoted statistic: White families have significantly more wealth than nonwhite families in America — nearly 10 times that of Black families. The racial wealth gap continues to greatly impact the differences in opportunity and access, from long-term health outcomes of a global pandemic, to education and income levels,…Continue Reading Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders

Reuters Health, June 14, 2019. (Reuters Health) – More than three years after Pennsylvania issued a statewide order expanding access to the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone, the product was still hard to purchase in Philadelphia pharmacies, researchers found. For the current study, Dima Qato of the University of Illinois, Chicago and colleagues contacted 418 drugstores…Continue Reading Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders

Hispanic heart disease deaths highest in mostly-Latino communities

Reuters Health, October 19, 2018. (Reuters Health) – Hispanics in the U.S. have lower rates of death from heart disease overall than non-Hispanic whites, except in communities where Hispanics make up most of the population, a recent study finds. “Given the residential racial/ethnic segregation across communities in the U.S. and the fact that localities with…Continue Reading Hispanic heart disease deaths highest in mostly-Latino communities

Where Did All The Corner Drug Stores Go? Areas Lose Easy Access To Medicine

WBEZ Chicago, January 24, 2018. You’ve heard of food deserts — often low-income neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a grocery store. Now another service desert is on the rise in these same neighborhoods: pharmacy deserts. As pharmacies slowly begin to close down on Chicago’s South and West sides, residents are finding it…Continue Reading Where Did All The Corner Drug Stores Go? Areas Lose Easy Access To Medicine

Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does

The Atlantic, April 13, 2015. Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality. As a thought experiment, say that scientists got ancestry right and cooked up a drug that closed the cardiovascular disease mortality gap. Would it do any good? Considering that more…Continue Reading Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does