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Fighting discrimination in healthcare is crucial to ending the overdose crisis
The authors explain why discrimination against people who have a substance use disorder is pervasive and destructive. (Photo: Getty Images)Overdose deaths in North Carolina have more than doubled in the past decade, with the most current numbers showing a 22% increase from 2020 to 2021 alone. Data from 2019-2021 shows the extreme increase in overdose deaths disproportionately shouldered by communities of color, with Black, American Indian/Indigenous North Carolinians experiencing double the rate of increase as white residents. People with disabilities also are at greater risk of overdose because of barriers to treatment in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs.  Tragically, the maj

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