• Marissa Wagner Mery
• 12 May, 2022

Driven by dangerously potent opioids like the synthetic substance fentanyl, deaths from drug overdoses are skyrocketing. Fatal overdoses among adolescents doubled between 2019 and 2020. And Black men – who in the past had a lower risk of drug-related death than white men – were one of the two most likely demographic groups to fatally overdose in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center, with their rate of death more than tripling since 2015.
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