Recent surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths has hit Black men the hardest

Pew Research Center ^ | JANUARY 19, 2022 | JOHN GRAMLICH

[Salman]

Nearly 92,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2020, marking a 30% increase from the year before, a 75% increase over five years and by far the highest annual total on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Preliminary figures suggest that the 2021 death toll from overdoses may be even higher.

While overdose death rates have increased in every major demographic group in recent years, no group has seen a bigger increase than Black men. As a result, Black men have overtaken White men and are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.

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[Salman]

Blacks catch up to Whites.

I get the feeling that's supposed to prove something, but not sure what.

[rktman]

HUH? Where’s the equity/equality in this?

[traderrob6]

Well at least it’s not “women and children hardest hit”.

[PIF]

This is blatant racism and grossly unfair to Blacks - more Whites, and especially Asians, need to be forced to take up the lethal drug habit.

[BenLurkin]

Undefended borders have cansequences.

[chief lee runamok]

"I get the feeling that's supposed to prove something, but not sure what."

Think, 'darwin theory'.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not surprising.Blacks have been hit damn hard by Rat Party policies that have killed their financial dreams.IMO it can *actually* be said that when it comes to the virus panic porn,brought to us by Rat Party Headquarters (and pals like Fauxi): “Minorities hit hardest”.

[PGR88]

Blacks get the “Progressive Rate” on everything from Left - education, crime, abortion, drug overdoses, etc. etc.

[alternatives?]

Is lead a drug?

[Leep]

Probably need a little something to take the edge off..after beating up old Asia people.

[mass55th]

Blacks dying by their own hand doesn’t matter unless a white cop gave them the drugs they overdosed on.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Beating up Asians can be habit forming.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

DRUGS ARE RACIST!

[Starstruck]

I get the feeling that's supposed to prove something, but not sure what.

Whutes can afford more reliable drugs.

[Radix]

Poor men can overdose just as well as White men.

[Steve_Seattle]

"has hit black men the hardest"

Notice the passive formulation, as if they were victims of some unforeseeable fate. Maybe it should say that black men are less likely to avoid self-destructive behavior.

[BiglyCommentary]

“Undefended borders are racist, helping to kill black people.”

If the stupid party were not the stupid party, everyone of them would be uttering that nonstop.

[I want the USA back]

So, is Whitey forcing them to take drugs?

[hanamizu]

Recent surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths has hit Black men the hardest

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Notice how the headline makes it look as if black men are innocent victims of a natural event, as if overdose deaths were like deaths from a tornado. Not like they are killing themselves by ingesting/injecting the drugs themselves.

[tomkat]

Notice the passive formulation, as if they were victims of some unforeseeable fate.

Precisely!