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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 “…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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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, essential workers gigs, the pandemic put them at risk of death.
In some cases if Black Americans weren’t working service jobs, they weren’t working at all.
It’s a concept that Princeton University economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case have chronicled in their New York Times bestseller “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.” The book details how the flaws in capitalism hurt America’s working class the most.
A November 2019 study by 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 problems of a capitalist system.
Gardere also believes that America’s race problem plays a role.
“We see the increase in suicide rates may speak to health disparities with regard to how people of color are treated, and of course, how COVID19 has disproportionately affected older people, people with premorbid conditions and people of color like Black and Brown people who are also intersect with those particular groups.”
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