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Drug use contributes to 500,000 deaths worldwide, with opioid overdose resulting in approximately 115,000 of these deaths in 2018. [1] This is up from 18,000 deaths in 1990. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2018, approximately 269 million people had engaged in drug usage at least once, 58 million of which used opioids. [ 1 ]
As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.
The age-adjusted drug poisoning death rate involving heroin doubled from 0.7 to 1.4 deaths per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2011 and then continued to increase to 4.1 in 2015. [196] The third wave of overdose deaths began in 2013, related to synthetic opioids, particularly illicitly produced fentanyl. [ 194 ]
In 2017 alone, there were 70,237 recorded drug overdose deaths; of those deaths, 47,600 involved an opioid. [9] [10] A report from December 2017 estimated that 130 people die every day in the United States due to opioid-related drug overdose. [11] The great majority of Americans who use prescription opioids do not believe that they are misusing ...
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs is a documentary film written, directed and narrated by Matthew Cooke and produced by Bert Marcus and Adrian Grenier. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival [ 1 ] and was theatrically released in June 2013.
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The heroin epidemic that has swept the United States has severely impacted one small town in West Virginia. In Huntington, a town of just 49,000 people, 27 people suffered from heroin overdoses in ...