Healio (9/13, Gramigna) reports, “Opioid overdose death rates increased among non-Hispanic Black individuals between 2018 and 2019, despite having leveled off overall,” investigators concluded after evaluating “trends in opioid overdose deaths according to race/ethnicity between 2018 and 2019 across 67…communities in Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts and Ohio, for which they determined opioid overdose death rates per 100,000 adult residents using state death certificate records.” The findings were published online Sept. 9 in the American Journal of Public Health.
Related Links:
— “Opioid overdose death rate increases 40% among Black individuals “Joe Gramigna, Healio, September 13, 2021