
Drug overdoses
Drug overdoses now lead accidental deaths in the US with 44.000 people killed in 2013.
Now in most US. states, more people die from accidental overdoses than in road accidents.
Suicide comes next with 41.000.
680.000
In a related development, the number of annual users of heroin jumped from 370,000 (2007) to 680,000 in 2013.
Drug overdoses tripled in the last 25 yrs; article is more relevant than ever. A look at ways to reduce #overdoses http://t.co/pcmKo2ZM42
— TRI (@TRI_Solutions) 29 Juillet 2015