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Ohio – “the epicenter of the heroin epidemic”

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

Unintentional drug overdose deaths have increased in the last decade in the United States. In the state of Ohio (which is where I now work as a researcher!), unintentional drug overdose is the leading cause of injury-related death (ODH, 2014).  Since 1999, more than 13,000 Ohio residents lost their lives to unintentional drug overdoses.  Based […]

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