Opioid Overdose Death Rate for U.S. Black Population Is Higher Than for White - The Wall Street Journal

Fentanyl’s spread and the pandemic’s destabilizing effects have accelerated fatal drug overdoses in Black communities

The fatal overdose rate among Black people surpassed that for white people in the first year of the pandemic, as an increasingly lethal drug supply and Covid-19s destabilizing effects exacted a heavy… [+416 chars]

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