Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fatal heroin overdose in February has helped to bring to focus the growing heroin epidemic in the United States. According to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. has grown at a staggering pace -- only motor vehicle accidents are a larger
Police Struggle To Fight America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic
Law enforcement agencies across the country lack the data they need to effectively address the nation’s heroin epidemic, but they may actually be the ones behind the data blackout.