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Kim Krisberg
The Nation's Health March 2015, 45 (2) 8;
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New data: Heroin deaths increasing

While deaths due to prescription opioids have remained stable since 2012, deaths attributed to heroin have increased for the third year in a row, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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