How heroin kills you
That means 5,927 people died after using heroin in 2012 and that number jumped to 8,260 deaths in 2013. Those are the latest numbers available.
This is the third year in a row that heroin deaths have increased.
The silver lining, if there is such a thing in a report about drug fatalities, is that deaths from prescription drug abuse have remained fairly stable from 2011-2013; that’s after those deaths peaked in 2010.
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The study authors found the supply of these drugs increased greatly in the 1990s through 2010, and then stabilized from 2011 to 2013.
They saw the parallel increase in heroin-related deaths in this same period.
Jen Christensen, CNN contributed to this report
