The rate of deaths of despair among Black Americans (103.81 per 100,000 people) surpassed that of white Americans (102.63 per 100,000) in 2022. The rate among Black Americans tripled from 2013 ...

And the gap between Black and white Americans during the early 2000s was erased post-COVID-19. Most of the inequalities stem from drug- and alcohol-related causes, the JAMA study n0tes.

Kathie Lee Gifford shared the thing that brought her out of “a black place” of despair. “The last two years, because of the ...