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The Top 10 Drugs People Are Overdosing and Dying On in the U.S.
Last Updated: Saturday March 19, 2022
(AlterNet, Dec. 21) As the wave of heroin and prescription opioid use sweeps across the US, leaving an ever-growing pile of bodies behind, the folks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are digging into the data. In a new report on the 2014 numbers, they rank the drugs most often reported in overdose fatalities. READ MORE.