As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native Americans hit worst
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to the earth.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to the earth.
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to...
The drug crisis has diversified from an overwhelmingly white affliction to killing people of color with staggering speed.
As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%. The death rate was highest among Native Americans.
It is no longer an opioid epidemic, but one in which people are dying from deadly cocktails of many drugs.