Heroin is among the most commonly used opioids in the U.S. It is thought that of the 13.5 million opiate users in the country, 9.2 million of them are heroin users, and as many as 18 percent of rehab admissions are a result of the drug. There are groups of people on either side of these […]
It is difficult to imagine a person dying of a drug overdose while incarcerated but it does happen. It was recently reported that two prison inmates at Alaska’s Lemon Creek Correctional Facility were treated for drug overdoses. Both men were hospitalized. In a separate incident, troopers report that an inmate tried to smuggle illegal contraband […]
Poisonings through drug overdose have tripled in the U.S. in the past three decades and, according to a recent report published earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 46 Americans die every day from an overdose of prescription painkillers. These prescriptions are primarily opioid or narcotic pain relievers. Twice as […]
