The CDC recently released a report showing that fentanyl death rates skyrocketed 279 percent between 2016 and 2021, and communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the rise. More Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021 and at far higher rates than white or Hispanic Americans. The CDC report found that American Indian or Alaska Native individuals had the highest rate of fentanyl overdose deaths of any racial or ethnic group that year.

Full report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr027.pdf?mkt_tok=NzczLU1KRi0zNzkAAAGL7bzobhk4TatKn472LViyTmLRAkc9L3Join2rmuVUNNQmNY22Xf_oYgNsfu2YKn1lBlJB1aqdI60dwYFoi7cIFH9gYl9SED8ZiBR753nRZwk