About 48,000 people lost their lives to opioids in 2017, the latest year for which complete data is available, according to a new study. Synthetic opioids (not methadone), such as fentanyl, accounted for almost two-thirds of those deaths.
In large metropolitan areas, black adults saw the largest increases in rates of drug overdose deaths involving opioids and synthetic opioids, with rates increasing 103% and 361% respectively, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: CNN
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/health/opioid-deaths-african-americans-study/index.html
