Here’s a shocking headline from WITF: “Heroin deaths in York County in 2014 top all of 2013 already.”

And Lancaster County is not immune from the heroin problem, as the article points out, “Lancaster County’s Drug Task Force called it the most abused drug in the county besides marijuana.”

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“A survey of more than 9,000 patients at drug treatment centers confirms an increase in heroin use as prescription painkillers become too expensive and difficult to buy.

“‘In the past, heroin was a drug that introduced people to narcotics,’ says principal investigator Theodore J. Cicero, professor of neuropharmacology in psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis.”

Continue reading this futuity.org article, “Cheap heroin replaces pain killers as drug of choice.”