Sentences with phrase «deaths than heroin»

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Deaths resulting from heroin overdoses have more than tripled since 2010, The New York Times reported last month.

Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span, to nearly than 13,000.

Fentanyl, a drug that's 30 times stronger than heroin and claimed the lives of more than 20,000 Americans last year, has been implicated in the deaths of celebrities including Prince and Tom Petty.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said.

Tuskey said those programs are part of the reason heroin overdose deaths were down more than 30 percent in 2013, the first time the county saw a drop in overdose deaths since the coroner began tracking them in 1999.

No link has been established between the overdoses in the Garfield Park neighborhood and doses of fentanyl - laced heroin that have led to more than 185 deaths in Cook County since April 2005, police said.

Heroin and opioid - related deaths in New York are at a record high, with overdose deaths in the state rising faster over the past decade than in nearly all other states, a new report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office found.

Overdose deaths from opioids, including prescription opioids and heroin, have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But the number of deaths from heroin and opioids alone continues to rise, more than doubling in Erie County alone between 2014 and 2015.

In Erie County, deaths from heroin or opioid overdoses more than doubled between 2014 and 2015, according to the Erie County Health Department.

Prescription overdoses are now responsible for killing more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined, and have moved past traffic accidents as the leading cause of death nationwide, according to Shimsky.

Last month, the Erie County Health Department confirmed that the number of opioid and heroin overdose deaths in 2015 was more than double the number of the previous year.

The drug often is implicated in clusters of overdose deaths when it is mixed with heroin and users do not realize what they are taking is more powerful than usual.

With deaths due to prescription opiates and heroin overdoses skyrocketing — the US figure has quadrupled since 1999, to more than 16,000 in 2010 — legislators are taking heed.

Nationwide, the number of deaths due to drugs more than doubled between 2002 to 2015, including a six-fold increase in deaths due to overdose of heroin and illicit opiods.

The study calculated that not eating enough nuts and seeds was the third - leading dietary risk factor for death and disability in the world, killing more people than processed meat consumption, and potentially leading to the deaths of 15 times more people than all those who die from overdoses of heroin, crack cocaine, and all other illicit drugs combined.

According to Gil Kerlikowske, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription painkillers were responsible for 16,600 deaths in 2010 — well over five times more than those caused by heroin.20

Although the chart shows that deaths due to heroin are likely to occur three times more amongst men than women, the rate at which women are dying is rising much faster.

Made for his solo exhibition entitled No Sense of Absolute Corruption at Gagosian Gallery, New York in 1996, Party Time embodies the artist's sense of the unacknowledged harm caused by cigarettes: «Smoking may do more harm than heroin, although they both end in death.

Fentanyl, a synthetic drug which is more than fifty times stronger than heroin, was alone responsible for 922 deaths in Vancouver in 2017.