Deaths from drug overdoses rose dramatically in zip codes encompassing Skid Row, from 13 in 2017 to 148 in 2022.
Fentanyl is being blamed for a surge of overdose deaths in and around Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles over the past five years, with Black men making up the majority of the victims.
“These are not just numbers and statistics, these are friends, family and loved ones,” Charles Parker, the prevention coordinator at United Coalition East Prevention Project, which provides outreach services in Skid Row. “We must stop the rise in overdose deaths and cannot tolerate another loss.”Of 140 fatal overdoses from January through November of 2022, 83 of the people who died were Black, according to the group’s data. That is 59 percent of the deaths.
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