Last year, 1,451 people died of drug overdoses in Tennessee — the highest annual number of overdose deaths in state history. The new data, released Tuesday from the Tennessee Department of Health, brings the five-year total of overdose deaths, statewide, to 6,036 — the same, the state said, as if every person on 40 mid-size […]
Pink: Stronger Than Heroin, But Legal In Most States
Two 13-year-old boys in the ski town of Park City, Utah died within 48 hours of each other in September, likely overdosing on a powerful heroin substitute that had been delivered — legally — to their homes by the U.S. mail, and is now turning up in cities across the nation. Ryan Ainsworth was found […]
