Reciente oleada de muertes por sobredosis en los EE.UU. ha afectado más duramente a hombres afrodescendientes

Desde el 2015, la tasa de muertes por sobredosis de drogas entre hombres negros se ha triplicado con creces; ello constituye una denuncia contra la respuesta del país a la crisis en ciernes. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

By John Gramlich / Pew Research Center

Nearly 92,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2020, marking a 30% increase from the year before, a 75% increase over five years and by far the highest annual total on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Preliminary figures suggest that the 2021 death toll from overdoses may be even higher.

While overdose death rates have increased in every major demographic group in recent years, no group has seen a bigger increase than Black men. As a result, Black men have overtaken White men and are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.

There were 54.1 fatal drug overdoses for every 100,000 Black men in the United States in 2020. That was similar to the rate among American Indian or Alaska Native men (52.1 deaths per 100,000 people) and well above the rates among White men (44.2 per 100,000) and Hispanic men (27.3 per 100,000). The overdose death rate among men was lowest among Asians or Pacific Islanders (8.5 per 100,000).