MSN/Business Insider: One type of legal drug is killing far more people than heroin — and deaths just hit record numbers
In just a year, overdose deaths from opioid painkillers and heroin jumped 14%, hitting record levels in 2014, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday.
Between 2000 and 2014, nearly half a million Americans died from overdoses involving these drugs, which research suggests act similarly in the brain.
The most commonly prescribed opioid painkillers — like oxycodone and hydrocodone — were involved in more overdose deaths than any other type of the drug. Those deaths rose by 9%.
"The increasing number of deaths from opioid overdose is alarming," CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a press release.
Update: Drug Overdose Deaths Hit 'Alarming' New Record in U.S., CDC Says (NBC).
WNU: This caught my eye ....
.... Between 2000 and 2014, nearly half a million Americans died from overdoses involving these drugs
If true .... this tells me that more Americans have died from these drug overdoses than from car accidents/murders/and wars COMBINED!
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We can bring in more poor and destitute or we can build parks.
Bring in people will not solve the world's problems. It has to be solved at the source or it is an endless series.
Taking in refugees is just taking them off the hands of dictators, plutocrats and thugs.
At some point you have to go on offense or the refugees have to solve their own problems. The Ming did.
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