Opioid overdoses are killing more Black Americans than ever ...Middle East

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Michael K. Williams, the 54-year-old American actor who rose to fame for his role of Omar Little in the 2000s TV show The Wire, was found dead yesterday. The police is investigating his death as a possible opioid overdose.Through the years, Williams had spoken openly about his struggle with opioid addiction, sharing the difficulties of sobriety and the lingering risk of relapse.The epidemic of opioid addiction has overwhelmingly affected white communities, in part because prejudicial ideas about Black patients’ higher threshold for pain made doctors less inclined to prescribe opioid medications for them—which in turn led to lower addiction rates.Read the rest of this story on qz.com. Become

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