MA’s persistently high opioid death rates, however, has produced a stunning shift between 2014 and 2016: black MA residents now live longer than non-Hispanic white residents, even despite higher infant mortality rates, due to lower deaths from opioid overdose. pic.twitter.com/0amjXMd4BD
— Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) December 28, 2018
White Americans are behaving more and more like how American Indians have long behaved: as a defeated and despairing race.
