LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: …Tainted, high-potency heroin killed at least 22 people in the Pittsburgh region last month and may be implicated in the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman…
According to a report by the Pennsylvania State Coroners Association last year, heroin-related fatalities rose steadily from 332 in 2009 to 827 in 2012 in 40 counties that were surveyed. A partial report from 2013 counted 524 fatalities through the summer. Over that time period, a total of 2,676 people statewide died overdosing on heroin or a combination of heroin and other drugs.
In addition, the report showed that white males ages 20-50 are disproportionately the victims of fatal heroin overdoses… (more)
EDITOR: No one needs die from a heroin overdose if they receive expeditious treatment with Naloxone. Call an ambulance at once and all should be well.
