Store closures come amid falling sales and opioid settlement payouts, and could compound health disparities.
Major drug store chains including Rite Aid and CVS are closing hundreds pharmacy locations across the U.S., leaving some Americans scrambling to fill prescriptions. The bulk of the closures are taking place in low-income neighborhoods, public health experts have warned. 'A lot of these pharmacies are in areas that are underserved, communities of color,' Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, a family medicine and urgent care doctor, told CBS News.
'We have seen that there are several neighborhoods, primarily communities of color and rural communities that don't have access just to healthy foods,' Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell said. The pharmacy closures compound health inequities that already exist. Health gap for communities of color'When you look at the fact that the pharmacies aren't there as well, there's no wonder why we have this widening gap of health inequities and disparities,' Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell said.
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