Posted on 02/17/2022 12:14:27 PM PST by thegagline
As the drug overdose crisis in the United States exploded during the coronavirus pandemic – killing an unprecedented 100,000 people in 12 months – Black and Indigenous Americans were increasingly likely to become the victims.
Drug overdose rates in America surged by 31% in 2020, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the pandemic left many facing lockdowns, and economic and emotional strain. But researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have found that the death rate surged most dramatically among Black and Indigenous Americans, who saw a staggering increase of 49% and 43% respectively in just one year.
While the data is not broken down by drug type, experts point toward one driving force: the explosion of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, a highly potent drug that has flooded the US marketand often ends up mixed into street drugs such as heroin, methamphetamines or cocaine.
Researchers say the numbers highlight the shifting dynamics of who is most at risk from the opioid crisis, which has in recent decades been viewed as an epidemic of rural, white America. Between 2019 and 2020, the overdose death rate for Black and Indigenous Americans surpassed that of white Americans, who were already dying in unprecedented numbers.
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Damn that white supremacy!!!
Probably it is the fault of the most WHITE SUPREMACIST group in America. They have no one in their ranks of darker skin pigment. We need to cancel their culture... AMISH.. they are all white, they are the reason we all suffer.
“Damn that white supremacy!!!”
Well, on the bright side, it does cut down on the number of potential Dem voters.
Well DUH! Uneducated and under employed Black Americans needs some work too. Dealing in drugs is a specific trade and a damn lucrative one too.
Free crack pipes should help expand those numbers.
I blame the victimhood mentality hammered into them constantly. it would give anyone a neuroses.
Mostly because of Qanon and 5G technology.
Maybe they served their purpose for the Democrats, and now they are a liability.
“Free crack pipes should help expand those numbers.”
Just have to look on the bright side for things we can’t control.
Biden gave them free needles, what else do they want from him?
“Why? Democrats tell them that they are without hope, and that society is stacked against them no matter what they do.”
I hear that all the time. I retired at age 55.
Don’t listen to Democrats.
Is killing many, not just Blacks and Indians. We need to close the border and seal it tight for starters. I pray that Hunter doesn't get a bad batch of cocaine spiked with this crap.
I assume they are just completely marginalized by the open borders; can’t speak for natives, but many unskilled or low-skilled blacks have been replaced in the workplace by newcomers of all colors (including blacks from the Caribbean or Africa).
Sorry but as old as I am nothing has changed in decades.
You’re right; the despair and ruin wrought when blue-collar urban blacks lost their jobs as manufacturing went oversees decades ago has never been reversed or addressed. That is why the cities that collapsed in the 1960s and 1970s are still wastelands.
Blah blah blah
I don’t care...
btt
Government cash handouts to anyone with a pulse including junkies 🤪
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