Trends In Drug-Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics And Heroin: United States, 1999 To 2012

The report was released in December 2014 by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between 2012 and 2013, heroin overdose deaths in the United States increased by 39%, from 5,925 in 2012 to 8,257 in 2013. During the same period, deaths from drug overdoses increased by 6%, from 41,340 in 2012 to 43,982 in 2013. Deaths due to prescription opioid analgesics increased by 1 . . .