Job losses help explain increase in drug deaths among Black Americans
Updated: 2024-04-25 20:28:53
Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Job losses help explain increase in drug deaths among Black Americans April 25, 2024 Ohio State University New research points to an economic factor that might be overlooked when considering why drug-related deaths among Black Americans increased significantly after 2010 in U.S . regions reporting heightened fentanyl activity job losses that followed the  After a decade of rapid growth in drug mortality among Black Americans , the death rate among Black Americans surpassed that of white Americans for the first time in 2020. The drug epidemic now is primarily driven by synthetic opioids â especially illicitly manufactured fentanyl. âThere have been many descriptive studies that show