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Abigail Higgins

Opioids are killing older Black men in D.C. at some of the highest rates in the country

Black men in their mid-fifties to mid-seventies accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population.
By Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick and Shedrick Pelt, published 12/20/24
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