Drug-Related Deaths – Prescription Meds Still Top The List

A quick scan of the headlines reveals a lot about the increase in deaths from heroin – between 2012 and 2013, heroin overdose deaths in the United States increased by 39%, from 5,925 in 2012 to 8,257 in 2013 (see Heroin Overdose Deaths Up 39% In 2013 and Heroin Overdose Deaths In U.S. Have Tripled Since 2010). Those . . .