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Jan 30, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Josh Katz |Margot Sanger-Katz |Nick Thieme
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates. They're all from the same generation.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
bostonglobe.com | Josh Katz |Margot Sanger-Katz |Nick Thieme
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates. They’re all from the same generation.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Margot Sanger-Katz |Nick Thieme
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates. They’re all from the same generation.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Josh Katz |Margot Sanger-Katz |Nick Thieme
Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates. They're all from the same generation.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Adam Willis |Alissa Zhu |Nick Thieme
A hearing to examine Baltimore’s opioid overdose crisis was abruptly canceled Wednesday morning as a dispute between Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council member who’d called the meeting bubbled over into the public eye. The hearing was to be the first of four planned in response to an investigation from The Banner and The New York Times that revealed the city is suffering from the worst drug crisis ever seen in a major American city.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Nick Thieme
Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis has not been suffered equally. The neighborhoodswiththe highest overdose rates were often the same oneswith the highest rates of poverty, according to a Banner analysisofMarylandautopsy data.The poorest neighborhoods had overdose rates more than 10 times higher than those in the city’s wealthiest.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Nick Thieme |Alissa Zhu |Jessica Gallagher |Adam Willis
The Baltimore Banner thanks its sponsors. Become one. Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s, a group that Baltimore’s changing economy left behind. The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights. Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Emily Sullivan |Nick Thieme |Alissa Zhu |Adam Willis
The public safety and health committees announced they would meet at least four times on the topic in the coming months, starting in July. "At the end of the day, we want to save lives," Councilman MarkConway, chair of the public safety committee, said in an interview last week.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Emily Sullivan |Nick Thieme |Alissa Zhu
The Baltimore City Council will hold at least four oversight hearings examining the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic, two city councilors announced Monday. Councilman Mark Conway announced he had scheduled his previously-announced hearing for July 10, where top officials under Mayor Brandon Scott are slated to testify. Councilwoman Danielle McCray also called for a series of hearings into the city’s coordinated response to the crisis.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Nick Thieme |Alissa Zhu |Adam Willis |Emily Sullivan
The Baltimore City Council willhold a hearing to examine the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic in the wake of findings published in recent weeks in a joint investigation by The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times.
