Friday, August 16, 2019

What about Afghanistan and heroin?

While negotiations about Afghanistan are taking place, please don't forget about the ruined lives and terrible deaths, in the United States and around the world.


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Quote:


In 2017, nearly 494,000 people in the United States (12-years old or older) reported using heroin in the past year, which is an estimated rate of 0.2 per 100 persons.2 And in 2015, 81,326 emergency department visits occurred for unintentional, heroin-related poisonings in America, which is an estimated rate of almost 26 per 100,000 people.


Publication:  


https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html