By Joel Achenbach Joel Achenbach Reporter covering science and politics Email Bio March 21 at 12:01 AM The synthetic opioid fentanyl has been driving up the rate of fatal drug overdoses across racial and social lines in the United States, with the sharpest increase among African Americans, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report provides a reminder that deadly opioids are increasingly taking the lives of urban drug users. Fentanyl is a factor in the recent rise in death rates across U.S. demographic groups and the drop in life expectancy. Fentanyl “came on with a vengeance,” Sen. Rob Portman said in an interview last week. “We were making progress, starting to get this stuff in the right direction, and the fentanyl just overwhelmed the systems.”
“We would look at that and say that’s pretty flat. We’d be reluctant to call it a real decline,” said the CDC’s Anderson.
Welp, there goes the compassion-over-criminalization approach to the opioid crisis now that law enforcement and politicians can frame it as a 'Black problem.'
maggieNYT My dad said it’s killing people who weren’t drug users before. So I guess that means African Americans and Hispanics weren’t abusing drugs before?
Build the Wall!
Why hasn’t this fentanyl production hasn’t been halted? How many people must die/cry? When it’s your children, your family, then maybe something will be done.
RyanGirdusky And ironically a baffling silence from Black America. A population so adversely affected by the dire issues of today, remain voiceless. In our quest for multiculturalism, we seem to have forgotten a vital part of our American family. ♥️
Yeppers
Yet Democrats seem more fixated and concerned for the safety and well being for illegal aliens who break our laws.
The victims are voluntarily taking the drugs as a part of their sex, violence and drugs culture.
I love the 'cuts across racial, ethnic lines' lol. Only one race was taking fentanyl? The drug that flows across the Southern Border. But hey, just keep letting people flood through and crossing illegally and digging those tunnels we haven't found yet. WAPO is a joke anymore
Oh, suddenly the WP is concerned about Opiates. What about the tens of thousands of poor whites who have died over the past fifteen years?
Profiling by WaPo.
With the Crack epidemic 😷 black folk should know better than to mess with this stuff.
RyanGirdusky Well of course, we all know Mexican cartels are racist.
Opium War once made China into poverty, plague and death. Because of this tragedy, death sentence is non-negotiable in China. Now it turns to the West suffer. However, instead of praising FDA agents, liberals think it is cool and plea innocent for drug dealers. Ridiculous.
Fentanyl is racist?
RyanGirdusky Maybe politicians will pay attention now
maggieNYT They are doing the 'Nestle trick': well Ng in Africa what cannot be sold in the West anymore
Why are we experiencing record-high overdoses? Suicide? Depression? Anxiety? This piece pulls together a lot of data and reaches a conclusion many of us do not like to hear:
Let me guess who will get blamed for this. Racism? The GOP? Climate change?Anything other than the person themselves.
maggieNYT Pointless article .It is a problem with any race . WAPO trying to drive a false narrative .
fentanyl drug overdose fentanyldeths healthcare
And still not one prosecution of the culprits Purduepharma and Johnson and Johnson who are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. The ladder of the law does have a top, end and bottom.
This is so sad! I do not abd will never understand why people have to take drugs to feel good about theirselves
This is sad and yet unsurprising.
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