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Drug Abuse and Overdose Statistics in Pennsylvania
A report titled “Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategies to Stop the Epidemic” reveals that Pennsylvania has the 14th-highest mortality rate for drug overdoses in the country, at a rate of 15.3 per 100,000 people. The total number of deaths from drug overdoses in the state, most of which result from use of prescription drugs, increased by […]
