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Original post: Newswise - Drug and Drug Abuse Black overdose death rate exceeds white rate in U.S. for first time in 20 years
In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of drug overdose deaths among Black Americans surpassed that of whites for the first time since 1999 — a sharp reversal of the situation a decade earlier, when rates were twice as high for whites as for Blacks.