Heroin Deaths Up Sharply in Connecticut

Published March 12, 2014

Heroin Deaths Up Sharply In Connecticut
Filed under: cocaine treatment approaches
Accidental deaths from all drugs — including heroin, cocaine, morphine, codeine and mixes of drugs — increased 38 percent in Connecticut to 490 in 2013 from 355 in 2012, according to the data. The steep death toll has continued into 2014, police said … Read more on FOX CT

Pa. doctors: Painkillers can lead to heroin, ODs
Filed under: cocaine treatment approaches
And, she said, prescription overdose deaths now outnumber heroin and cocaine overdose deaths combined. "More Pennsylvanians now die from … Dr. Michael Ashburn, director of the Penn Pain Medicine Center in Philadelphia, said during a conference call … Read more on Pocono Record