Ignoring Race is Deadly

What You Need To Know

• Black men and Native American men are the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses. - *

• Since 2015, the overdose death rate rose 213% among Black men and 144% among Black women. Indigenous Americans have a higher drug overdose death rate than any other group.* 

• We must address systemic racism to be effective. Colorblind programs don’t work.

Programs To Know

• Black Harm Reduction Network

• Indigenous Harm Reduction

• National Native Harm Reduction Summit

• VOCAL

• CEPA

• Red Canary Song

Where to Go for More Information

• Fact Sheet: The Impact of the Overdose Crisis on Black Communities in the United States

• Native Harm Reduction Toolkit

• Black Harm Reduction Network

• Structural Racism and the Opioid Overdose Epidemic: The Need for Antiracist Public Health Practice

• Collaborative for Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE)

• Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice

• Uprooting the Drug War

• Whitewashing of the Opioid Crisis from the Chicago Reporter

• Opioids and Race from Changing the Narrative

• Building Black Feminist Visions to End the Drug War

• Action pack to help your community declare racism a public health crisis

• Focus on Racial Equity - Johns Hopkins

Leaders to Know

Research

• Structural racism, economic opportunity and racial health disparities: Evidence from U.S. counties

• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

• CDC Declares Racism a Public Health Threat

• Health Disparities and Access to Health

• Racial disparities in the quality of care for enrollees in medicare managed care

• Race, ethnicity, and emergency department post-overdose care

• Incidence of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Following Nonfatal Overdose in Commercially Insured Patients

• Buprenorphine Treatment Divide by Race/Ethnicity and Payment

• Growing racial/ethnic disparities in buprenorphine distribution in the United States, 2007-2017

• Permanent Methadone Treatment Reform Needed to Combat the Opioid Crisis and Structural Racism

• Racial disparities in discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy following illicit drug use among black and white patients