Daily News | Hospitalizations for opioid overdoses are increasing among Black and Hispanic Pennsylvanians, study finds
Although Pennsylvania is seeing fewer people hospitalized for heroin and opioid painkiller overdoses, the racial divide in those affected is widening, a new research brief has found.
The increases in hospitalization among Black and Hispanic residents are in line with similar increases in the overdose death rate in those communities — a sign of the growing racial disparities in Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis.Decades into the opioid epidemic, Black Philadelphians are dying of overdoses at the same rates as white residents, and the death toll is breaking records.
Black and Hispanic patients were hospitalized for opioid overdoses at a rate of 37.8 and 30 per 100,000 residents, respectively. White Pennsylvanians, by comparison, were hospitalized at a rate of 19.2 per 100,000. The report does not clarify whether people hospitalized for a fentanyl overdose between 2016 and 2020 are missing from the analysis, or whether those hospitalizations were categorized by another diagnostic code ― for example, identified as a heroin overdose.are revived by friends, outreach workers, or bystanders and don’t go to the hospital, Perrone said.
“I think a lot has been done in the space around educating people about naloxone — getting it into communities, getting it into households, but I’m not sure we did a great job of getting it into Black communities,” she said.
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