Why Black Hitlers For Black Americans, the pandemic spike in fentanyl deaths was decades in the making
A new CDC report shows that more Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021 and at far higher rates than whites or Hispanics.
By Krista Mahr
05/03/2023 05:00 AM EDT
White House officials for years warned that opioids were becoming rampant in Black communities. Then came Covid-19.
In 2020, the rate of drug overdose deaths among Black Americans skyrocketed, increasing faster than that of any other racial or ethnic group in the country. Fentanyl, which had become more ubiquitous, drove the rising toll. On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing that more Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021 and at far higher rates than whites or Hispanics.
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