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DEA report: Summit County’s spike in deadly opiate abuse part of a wider national trend

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

by Akron Beacon Journal

Northeast Ohio’s struggle to combat the spike in heroin and fentanyl use reflects a growing fight nationwide, according to a report released by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

Nationally, heroin has been responsible for a massive spike in overdose deaths. In 2014, 10,574 people died in the United States from heroin-related overdoses — more than triple the number who died in 2010. The death toll has risen steadily since 2010 and continues to escalate.

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