Prescription Drug Abuse May Be Down, But Heroin Overdoses Are on The Rise. What Is to be Done?

For the last 20 or so years, drug overdose deaths have been on the rise. Even more concerning and worrying is the statistic being made public by the CDC. The statistic being that for the third year in a row, heroin deaths have spiked. From 2012 where a reported 5,927 people died from a heroin overdose, in 2013 the number has increased to 8,260 deaths which is an increase of approximately 39 percent. Some, who may be in denial about these troubling heroin statistics are saying, that at least, prescription medication overdoses have remained the same for a few years after spiking in 2010. Those observing these drug trends, however, want to point out that drug overdoses resulting in death cause more deaths than traffic accidents.… Read the rest »