Painkiller ODs Are Up 65% in New York
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People love their pills, obviously. Deaths linked to hydrocodone jumped 65% between 2005 and 2011. Staten Island was hit the hardest, with ODs up 261%. According to these new stats, at least one person died every other day in 2011 due to opioid use. If only stop and frisk somehow stopped people from using Oxycontin, New York could be a paradise.Read more at gothamist.com
