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Heroin overdose death rates quadrupled since 2000, says CDC
Concern over the U.S. drug epidemic has focused on the growing abuse of prescription painkillers like oxycodone. But if overdose deaths are any indication, heroin may still be a bigger problem. Death rates from heroin overdoses have nearly quadrupled since 2000 to reach 2.7 per 100,000 people in 2013, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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