Growing Heroin Epidemic on Long Island Stealing Young Lives at Alarming Rate
Growing heroin epidemic on Long Island stealing young lives at alarming rate
… on circumstances of Hoffman's death, CDC statistics paint a much broader heroin problem. Between 2007 and 2012 the number of users in the country has doubled from 373,000 to 669,000, and the rates of drug overdose deaths has quintupled since 1990.
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Overdose deaths from prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in southwestern …
In 2011, the most recent data available for research, drug overdose deaths in Allegheny County totaled 243, a rate of 20.5 per 100,000 residents. That's up from 2010 and 2009, when 228 and 222 people died from overdoses, respectively. Compare that to …
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Report: Heroin epidemic in South Florida
Medical examiner death statistics for 2013 won't be available until summer, but are expected to show further increases, according to the report's author, James N. Hall, a drug-abuse epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University's Center for Applied …
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