Psychiatric News (3/4) reported drug overdose fatalities “among Black people living in the United States rose significantly from 2019 to 2020, outpacing the overdose death rates of White people for the first time in over 20 years, according to a report published this week in JAMA Psychiatry.” The analysis also found “that American Indian or Alaska Native people experienced the highest rate of overdose mortality in 2020 of all the groups examined.”
Related Links:
— “Study Examines Shifting Racial Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths, Psychiatric News, March 4, 2022