Wash Post Deep Dive on the Under-Reported AA Opioid Overdoses in DC

[Idaeo]

Heroin laced with the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl has killed thousands of such drug users in the past several years, driving a largely overlooked urban public-health crisis. Since 2014, the national rate of fatal drug overdoses has increased more than twice as fast among African Americans as among whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In this new explosion of deaths, the nation’s capital is ground zero. The District saw 279 people die of opioid overdoses last year, a figure that surpassed the city’s homicides and was greater than three times the number of opioid deaths in 2014. More than 70 percent of cases involved fentanyl or its analogues, according to the District’s chief medical examiner, and more than 80 percent of victims were black.

Even in a country where opioids are killing people at unprecedented rates, the District stood out. Between 2014 and 2017, the city’s rate of fatal drug overdoses rose by 209.9 percent — an increase higher than that in any state and the ninth-highest among all U.S. counties, CDC data show. (The agency does not track overdoses by city.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...-on-african-americans/?utm_term=.449f38e04cc8

 

[JoogJoint]

 

[Geek Nasty]

Keep letting mumble mouth down low addict rappers run the scene

 

[Hardest Since MC Ren]

Why are they cutting H with fentanyl?

 

[ORDER_66]

Wow.... one state tho???

 

[YamakaSmacker]

Wow.... one state tho???

 

[ORDER_66]

In the bigger picture one state compared to how many cacs dying off in others... then I say it's a win in my book... don't none of those muthafukkas cared when the crack epidemic hit... and now they the ones dying off by the truckloads... Go to West Virgina where they are you'll see...

 

[YamakaSmacker]

In the bigger picture one state compared to how many cacs dying off in others... then I say it's a win in my book... don't none of those muthafukkas cared when the crack epidemic hit... and now they the ones dying off by the truckloads... Go to West Virgina where they are you'll see...

DC is not a state

 

[Yinny]

So I see a ton of “get help” and “it’s not a crime” ads for opioid/heroin addicts, not one of them is Black or even non-white. Obv I know they exist but as usual Black people affectes by these issues go largely ignored.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

that’s a cop out

Keep letting mumble mouth down low addict rappers run the scene

 

[ThatTruth777]

Keep letting mumble mouth down low addict rappers run the scene

hey man its just music

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Why are they cutting H with fentanyl?

Yo dawg, I heard you liked drugs, so we put more drugs in your drugs...

 

[ORDER_66]

DC is not a state

A city then...:trollol: