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Friedman, who tracks rapid shifts in the overdose crisis, said there may be several reasons for the reduction in deaths., which is a drug prevention approach that aims to meet people with addiction where they’re at. In recent years, local governments have done more to provide free overdose reversal agents like naloxone.
State counts can give a clearer picture of the drug crisis. But Friedman said the CDC’s early data could reflect an undercount, or that deaths could have picked up in the months after May. It will likely be months into 2025 until we know a fuller picture. In total numbers, Black people accounted for about 13% of the fatal overdoses in California last year, while making up about 5% of the state’s population, according to
He and other experts generally agree the overdose crisis gets portrayed as a white problem. At one point in Bluthenthal’s career, he was one of a handful of African Americans leading aHarm reduction strategies like this have also often targeted white populations better than communities of color. Bluthenthal said there’s been robust efforts to reduce the impacts of drugs, like syringe service programs and naloxone distribution. But it gets complicated when people live on the street.
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