Opioids Claiming More African-American Lives

Equal Opportunity Killer –

February 22, 2019 – Why is it spreading? “Heroin,” Stanford University’s Mathew Kiang told NBC News “specifically, fentanyl-laced heroin … African-Americans were less affected because there were “much lower opioid prescription rates in the black population than in the white population,” the study stated. In recent years, however, “rates of heroin use and prescription opioid misuse in blacks and whites have begun to converge,” that study said.

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