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Monday, September 30
Data shows pandemic exacerbates addiction in Native American peoples
More of 100, 04 died from an overdose while the pandemic hit the country, another example of how it aggravated many things, including the addiction crisis.
The 30% more deaths for this cause represents unpublished figures of an affliction that is no longer mostly of whites, but rather kills more and more people of color .
Last year, the highest number was from indigenous tribes of the country, hit more by the pandemic, which was added to other pain for years such as trauma, poverty, unemployment and poor health services .
Beyond the opioid epidemic, people are dying of lethal drug cocktails . In recent years, amphetamine deaths have nearly tripled, while Native Americans are 12 times more susceptible to all other settlers.
And these deaths come after 500 years of pain , for having been stripped of their lands, their culture, their language and even their children, who were taken to schools where they were forcibly indoctrinated with the slogan “Kill the Indian and save the man.”
With information from The Associated Press.
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