SA - Heroin Overdose Deaths Nearly Quadruple in 13 Years

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The increase in prescription pain medication use might be a contributing factor
March 4, 2015 |By Rachael Rettner and LiveScience

In a worsening trend, deaths from heroin overdose in the United States increased even more dramatically in recent years than they did over the previous decade, according to a new report.

The results show the rate of death from heroin overdose nearly quadrupled, from 0.7 deaths per 100,000 people in the year 2000, to 2.7 deaths per 100,000 people in 2013. But the steepest rise occurred between 2010 and 2013, when the rate of death from heroin overdose increased 37 percent, compared with rising just 6 percent over the decade before, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Heroin, so disgusting that people sell it and make it, absolutely disgusting and a shame.

Notice everyone blames the users and never the dealers.

Yeah, earth should probably just be gone.

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My community is awash with cheap heroin.

Our meddling in the Middle East has got them producing heroin in large quantities, and now it is cheap. I understand they had their problem under control until we came in.

Jayster

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Yeah-here in KY and OH, thats all were hearing about-that it`s epidemic now.