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Majority of 2015 overdose deaths implicate drugs other than or in addition to heroin

http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/10078831-74/overdoses-hero

Article by Rich Chodlofsky highlights how drug overdose deaths far outnumber those attributable to other causes. More than half of the record high 126 overdose deaths implicated drugs other than or in addition to heroin -- most significantly prescription drugs.

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