Life expectancy in our city can vary by a decade depending on the ward you live in. This section explores D.C.'s health inequalities, and the ways residents are working to change them.
This reporting is done with support from the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice.
Black men in their mid-fifties to mid-seventies accounted for nearly 38% of the city’s opioid fatalities in 2022, while only making up about 4% of D.C.’s total population.
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