Why percentages don't tell the real story. Before we talk solutions we get some understanding.
If 1 black person od'd on drugs in 2021 and then 3 people od'd in 2022 the rate would go up 2 hundred percent.
If 30000 whites od'd in 2021 and then 30001 of in 2022 the rate is going up by less then 1 percent.
Now we create a headline.
Africans Americans od'ing at 200 percent the rate of whites from 2021 to 2022.
Then we have morons in here thinking. Yea I knew blacks did more drugs a hyuck yuck. Retards.
Breh, that's not how per-100,000 figures work at all.
Let's say Wyoming has a population of 1 million and they have 200 people die of gunshots. Oregon has a population of 4 million and they have 400 people die of gunshots. Would you just claim "Oregon is more dangerous" because they had more gunshot deaths? No, that would be stupid, Oregon is going to have more of ALL deaths because they have a bigger population.
So you do per-100,000 numbers. Simple division shows that in Wyoming, 20 out of every 100,000 people died of gunshots. But in Oregon, just 10 out of every 100,000 died of gunshots. So a random person in Wyoming is twice as likely to die of gunshot as a random person in Oregon.
Those raw "deaths per 100,000" figures have NOTHING to do with how much change their was year to year, that would be a "% change" figure.
And since you asked, 37 overdose deaths per 100,000 Black people in 2020 means that about 15,500 Black folk died of opiod overdose that year.