Fentanyl drug overdose deaths are rising most sharply among African Americans, according to an analysis by the CDC
By Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach Reporter covering science and politics Email Bio March 21 at 12:01 AM The synthetic opioid fentanyl has been driving up the rate of fatal drug overdoses across racial and social lines in the United States, with the sharpest increase among African Americans, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report provides a reminder that deadly opioids are increasingly taking the lives of urban drug users. Fentanyl is a factor in the recent rise in death rates across U.S. demographic groups and the drop in life expectancy. Fentanyl “came on with a vengeance,” Sen. Rob Portman said in an interview last week. “We were making progress, starting to get this stuff in the right direction, and the fentanyl just overwhelmed the systems.”
“We would look at that and say that’s pretty flat. We’d be reluctant to call it a real decline,” said the CDC’s Anderson.
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