African Americans now outpace whites in opioid-involved overdose deaths: a comparison of temporal trends from 1999 to 2018.

C Debra M Furr-Holden Adam J Milam Ling Wang Richard Casey Sadler

Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2020)

Despite historically lower rates of opioid misuse and opioid-involved overdose deaths among African Americans compared with whites, the growth in opioid-involved overdose deaths among African Americans now outpaces that of whites in the United States.

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