A documented rise in drug-overdose deaths during the pandemic has disproportionately impacted Black and Native Americans, according to a new analysis of government data spanning 2018 to the first several months of COVID-19.
While death rates for drug overdoses grew for all racial and ethnic groups from 2018 to 2020, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native people experienced the biggest increases, according to the report by Kaiser Family Foundation, a healthcare think tank.
“These increases in substance use problems come at a time when many people of color have faced a number of negative effects of the pandemic, including increased mental distress and job loss and infection and deaths due to COVID-19,” the KFF authors wrote. “ ‘COVID-19 has exacerbated preexisting stressors, social isolation, and economic deprivation disproportionately in Black communities, possibly contributing to increased substance use.’ ”
Trends contributing to overdose deaths have “shifted,” Volkow added, from mortality in the early stages of the opioid crisis being largely associated with white Americans in rural or semi-suburban parts of the country. “COVID-19 has exacerbated preexisting stressors, social isolation, and economic deprivation disproportionately in Black communities, possibly contributing to increased substance use,” the study authors wrote. “The preexisting racial disparities in accessing substance use treatment may also be heightened by COVID-19–related shifts in treatment availability.”
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