Higher Overdose Death Rates Among Blacks, Native Americans Reflect Treatment Disparities, CDC Says

July 20, 2022

(Wall Street Journal) – Disparities in access to treatment are driving up overdose rates among Black and Native American people as drug deaths reach record highs across the country, U.S. health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that overdose deaths per 100,000 people increased 44% for Black people and 39% for Native Americans in 2020 from a year earlier compared with a 22% increase among white people. The CDC said 2020 was the most recent year for which it had complete data from 25 states analyzed in the study as well as Washington, D.C. (Read More)