The face of the opioid epidemic has changed, from white and middle class to Black and brown people. They are dying because of biases in medical treatment
"I had never seen Death the way I've seen death when it comes to opioid addiction," says Thomas Gooch, a recovery counselor in Nashville, Tenn. On his phone, Gooch displays a picture of his wife, who died of an overdose. (Photograph by Gioncarlo Valentine)