Post by Logan on Jan 24, 2016 22:47:24 GMT -6
The calls came 95 times last year.
In each, a Greenville County coroner was summoned to a hospital, home or hotel room after someone was found dead of a drug overdose.
Roughly half of the 95 overdoses in 2015 involved either heroin or fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times more powerful than morphine.
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As heroin use rises, more people are dying of overdoses than ever before. Yet one area hasn’t caught up with the need — the money to treat addiction.
South Carolina ranks fourth-worst in the nation in how much funding it commits to fighting drug and alcohol addiction, according to an analysis by The Greenville News.
Continued at www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2016/01/24/state-ranks-near-bottom-substance-abuse-spending/77835906/
In each, a Greenville County coroner was summoned to a hospital, home or hotel room after someone was found dead of a drug overdose.
Roughly half of the 95 overdoses in 2015 involved either heroin or fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times more powerful than morphine.
-snip-
As heroin use rises, more people are dying of overdoses than ever before. Yet one area hasn’t caught up with the need — the money to treat addiction.
South Carolina ranks fourth-worst in the nation in how much funding it commits to fighting drug and alcohol addiction, according to an analysis by The Greenville News.
Continued at www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2016/01/24/state-ranks-near-bottom-substance-abuse-spending/77835906/