2018-09-26 | By newsstory | 140 Hits

Drug overdose deaths have grown exponentially over the past 38 years and are not happening only because of the growing abuse of fentanyl heroin and prescription opioid drugs according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dataThe opioid overdose ratesnbsphave all risen reports the paper published in the journal Science but overdose rates from cocaine and methamphetamine have also skyrocketedBetween 1979 and 2016 the rate of drug overdose doubled about every nine years from 1 death per 100000 people to more than 1 >>READ MORE