STAT January 24, 2025
Natrina L. Johnson, Miriam Komaromy

We’re working on ways to fix that

For years, we have studied and cared for patients living with a condition that resulted in annual death rates in the U.S. of more than 100,000 people per year. Now, we have seen the first real sign of hope in more than a decade: a stunning 14% decline in the national overdose death rate.

We are encouraged by this sharp decline, yet are also deeply troubled that this hard-fought progress is not being shared equally across all our communities. While overdose death rates for white people had fallen dramatically...

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