Prescription drugs kill more people in the U.S. than any other drug, but heroin overdose deaths have exploded, leading the Drug Enforcement Administration to declare both as the most threatening drugs. Drug overdoses continued to be the leading cause of injury death for Americans, killing more people than guns or car crashes each year since 2008. There were 46,471 fatal overdoses in 2013, with about half coming from prescription medicines and about 8,000 from heroin, according to the annual report, which was released on Wednesday. "Sadly this report confirms what we’ve known for some time: drug abuse is ending too many lives too soon and destroying families and...
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