While overdose death rates in the U.S. for white people have fallen dramatically, the rates for Black people lag behind.

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...

Widespread addiction in Black, urban communities has historically ... Additionally, prosecutors face an uphill battle in proving the drug quantity against white-collar doctors (rather than street ...

There are also cultural differences in the approaches to addiction. Many in the Black community object to what they see as an overly tolerant attitude toward drug use among white therapists and ...