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    Are 'deaths of despair' really more common for white Americans? A UCLA report says no

    by Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2024 5 minutes
    Nakeya Fields, a licensed clinical social worker and chair of the Pasadena- based Black Mental Health Task Force, poses for a portrait on June 10, 2023 in Torrance, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Nakeya Fields has seen how the stresses that come with being Black — racial injustice, financial strain, social isolation — can leave people feeling hopeless and push some into substance abuse.

    It's one of the reasons the Pasadena social worker started offering "therapeutic play" gatherings for Black mothers like herself and children.

    "I'm trying to host more safe spaces for us to come and share that we're suffering," the 44-year-old said. "And honestly, the adults need play more than kids."

    Yet while Black and brown mental health practitioners such as Fields have labored to address these issues within their communities, a very different conversation has been occurring in the nation at large.

    For years, discussions about America's substance-abuse crisis have focused almost exclusively on the narrative that it is white, middle-age adults

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