That big tide now seems to be ebbing — however not for this group of Black males. In the ten cities examined on this partnership, together with Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Newark, Washington, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, Black males ages 54 to 73 have been dying from overdoses at greater than 4 occasions the speed of males of different races.
“They have been resilient sufficient to stay by way of a bunch of different epidemics — H.I.V., crack, Covid, multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis — solely to be killed by fentanyl,” mentioned Tracie M. Gardner, the chief director of the National Black Harm Reduction Network and a former New York State well being official.
