Drug Addiction Killing Too Many

Published March 23, 2014

Drug addiction killing too many
We lost 14,800 to opiate-related deaths in 2008 alone, 36,450 if you include other prescribed drugs, government statistics show. There are 100 deaths due to overdose a day, as many as 220,000 since 2008. Locally, Schuylkill County admitted 382 people …
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It cited no statistics specific to New Jersey. The report rated the … According to the N.J. Division of Drug Abuse and Mental Heath Services, fully 64 percent of state drug-treatment admissions have been in treatment programs previously. Curtailing …
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