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Every 20 minutes, someone dies from overdose – but treatment isn’t keeping pace

December 21, 2016

The Bend Bulletin, Oct. 20, 2016 The abuse of prescription pain killers and illegal drugs has tripled the rate of opiate overdoses in the U.S. since 2000. Every day, 78 people die of heroin or prescription opiate overdose, a rate of about one person every 20 minutes. Yet, the nation’s capacity to treat opioid addiction […]

In 36 states, including Oregon, drug overdoses now take more lives than car crashes

July 26, 2016

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KVAL, July 13, 2016 Drug overdoses now kill more people than car crashes in Oregon, Washington and 34 other states, according to a report from Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And researchers say that has a lot to do with a rise in the abuse of opioids, a type of […]

After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, local police release heroin overdose statistics

February 4, 2014

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The Oregonian, Feb. 4, 2013 Police released the latest heroin overdose statistics Tuesday after the weekend death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman put the problem back in the national spotlight. Hoffman was found dead Sunday in a New York apartment with a syringe in his arm and dozens of packets of what appears to be […]