Sentences with phrase «people than heroin»

Legal drugs such as OxyContin now kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.

Not exact matches

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

As Andrew explains, it is the most insidious development yet in the opioid crisis: «It — because of its potency — is killing so many more people so much more rapidly than the prescription drugs or even the heroin did.»

(But the government's own statistics indicate that for every 104 people who have used marijuana, only one becomes a regular user of cocaine, and less than one becomes a heroin addict.)

Coronation Street has been cleared by Ofcom after more than 200 people complained over a scene in which a vicar took heroin in a church.

He oversaw prosecutions from at least three major drug busts in Syracuse in which almost 80 people were arrested and more than a dozen pounds of cocaine and heroin were taken off the streets.

Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said, «Heroin has become the drug of choice and is becoming more deadly than any other drug we've seen, especially to our young people.

A heroin crisis gripping communities across the country deepened in New York last year, with more people in the city dying in overdoses from the drug than in any year since 2003.

National figures show that far more people are dying of synthetic opiate overdoses than are dying from overdoses related to heroin, cocaine or meth.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

Professor Malcolm Lader, who is from the Royal Maudsley Hospital (in the UK) stated: «It's more difficult to withdraw people from benzodiazepines than it is from heroin.»

«Heaven Knows What» has a looser structure than even «Kids,» but directors Josh Safdie and Benn Safdie must have been intent on showing us not a classic narrative with loose connections tied up but a laid - back look at the several days or weeks in the lives of a group of young people addicted to heroin.

Unfortunately, not everyone will get the treatment they need and in 2013 alone, more than 8,200 people died due to a heroin overdose.

Persons who are convicted for purchasing or selling heroin may face stiffer penalties than a simple possession.

More people today are using opiates than ever before and thousands of men and women are addicted to pain pills or heroin.