Amid a continuing opioid epidemic in the U.S., heroin overdose death rates rose 46.4 percent from 2014 to 2015 in North Carolina, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).
The increase was second only to South Carolina’s – 57.1 percent – out of “28 states with consistent and high quality reporting of specific drugs involved in an overdose,” according to CDC. Aside from the Carolinas, nine other states had increases in heroin death rates.
North Carolina’s…
Amid a continuing opioid epidemic in the U.S., heroin overdose death rates rose 46.4 percent from 2014 to 2015 in North Carolina, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).
The increase was second only to South Carolina’s – 57.1 percent – out of “28 states with consistent and high quality reporting of specific drugs involved in an overdose,” according to CDC. Aside from the Carolinas, nine other states had increases in heroin death rates.
North Carolina’s…