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“…We do know that unemployment rates are usually higher for African Americans and therefore that results in not only more financial hardship, but family and specifically emotional hardship, which puts them at risk for possibly more substance abuse.”
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in 2020 (92,000) showed a 30% increase from the previous year, according to the CDC. The CDC also showed that between June 2020 and June 2021, drug overdose deaths increased by over 18%, which is just below the center’s prediction of over 20%, but an increase, nonetheless. New York State recorded 2,572 deaths in June 2020 compared to 2,844 deaths in June 2021. An over 10% increase. The CDC couldn’t collect any more data due to the state’s underreporting of said data. But the recent surge in drug overdose deaths have hit Black men the hardest according to a new report by the Pew
January 27, 2022 - February 2, 2022 • 29 Steven Woolf from Virginia Commonwealth University and Heidi Schoomaker of Eastern Virginia Medical School showed that overdose deaths increased among Black people between the ages of 55 to 64 in big cities. The COVID-19 pandemic has lifted the rock to show the probessential workers gigs, the pan- lems of a capitalist system. demic put them at risk of death. Gardere also believes that In some cases if Black America’s race problem plays Americans weren’t work- a role. ing service jobs, they weren’t “We see the increase in suiworking at all. cide rates may speak to health It’s a concept that Princeton disparities with regard to how University economists Angus people of color are treated, Deaton and Anne Case have and of course, how COVIDchronicled in their New York 19 has disproportionately afTimes bestseller “Deaths of De- fected older people, people spair and the Future of Capital- with premorbid conditions ism.” The book details how the and people of color like Black flaws in capitalism hurt Ameri- and Brown people who are ca’s working class the most. also intersect with those parA November 2019 study by ticular groups.”
Research Center. According to Pew, as recently as 2015, Black men were less likely than white, American Indian or Alaska native men to die from drug overdoses. Between 2015 and 2020, the rate among Black men increased by 213% (from 17.3 per 1,000 to 54.1 per 1,000). During the same period drug overdoses among Black women increased 144%, which is higher than any other group of women. Dr. Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and professor at
the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, stated, “…We do know that unemployment rates are usually higher for African Americans and therefore that results in not only more financial hardship, but family and specifically emotional hardship, which puts them at risk for possibly more substance abuse.” The Economic Policy Institute noted in April 2020 that job losses have hit Black people especially hard, and for those who are working service jobs,
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