Black community sees largest increase in overdose deaths in over 2 decades

In 2020, Black individuals had the largest increase in overdose mortality rates for the first time compared with any other ethnic or racial group since 1999, according to a research letter published in in JAMA Psychiatry.
American Indian or Alaska Natives experienced the highest rate of overdose deaths in 2020 among all racial groups, Joseph R. Friedman, MPH, and Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote.
Friedman and Hansen performed a cross-sectional study using anonymized public data from CDC’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research

In 2020, Black individuals had the largest increase in overdose mortality rates for the first time compared with any other ethnic or racial group since 1999, according to a research letter published in in JAMA Psychiatry.
American Indian or Alaska Natives experienced the highest rate of overdose deaths in 2020 among all racial groups, Joseph R. Friedman, MPH, and Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote.
Friedman and Hansen performed a cross-sectional study using anonymized public data from CDC’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research