How Drug Overdose Deaths Have Plagued One Generation of Black Men for Decades
Briefly

An investigation reveals that older Black men are dying from drug overdoses at alarming rates, a trend largely driven by the fentanyl crisis, particularly prominent in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, and San Francisco.
These men, resilient through previous epidemics like H.I.V., crack, and Covid, are now confronting an unprecedented overdose crisis fueled by dangerous drugs like fentanyl, resulting in deaths at rates four times higher than men of other races.
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