Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data shows
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Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data shows
Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday.
That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Heroin deaths spiked too, rising by more than 2,000 cases. For the first time since at least the late 1990s, there were more deaths due to heroin than to traditional opioid painkillers, like hydrocodone and oxycodone.
"The epidemic of deaths involving opioids continues to worsen," said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement. "Prescription opioid misuse and use of heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl are intertwined and deeply troubling problems."
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Re: Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data shows
I saw that chart yesterday and was saddened.
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The Afghan poppy field are in full production again.
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Legalize it. Yes, I'm serious.
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