That’s how many drug overdose deaths Philadelphia reported last year, up 11% from 2021. The fatalities dramatically increased among the city’s minority population, according to a new report from the city’s Department of Public Health. Reflecting trend lines in several other major cities, between 2018 and 2021, drug fatalities among Black and Hispanic individuals increased 87% and 43%, respectively, in the total number of drug overdose deaths, while drug fatalities among white individuals dropped 12% over the same time period. While fentanyl was present in the vast majority of the overdoses in 2022, fatalities have increasingly become multi-drug occurrences, with 70% of all overdoses involving stimulants like cocaine, a 3% increase from the year prior.
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss Nagorno-Karabakh, a U.S. government shutdown, the India-Canada spat, why every American institution is liberal, and the time Walter met Winston Churchill
Michael Lind chronicles civilizational shifts and national trends, writing about American politics and culture with a deep understanding of history and appreciation for America's highest ideals.
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Vol. 2, Issue 35: Sept. 22-28 • Predatory AIs, a historian’s faulty history of Iraqi Jewry, Ben Lerner’s auto-fictional poems, the sukkah guys, an Agnon story for Sukkot, and more