Deaths in Virginia from heroin and opioid use outnumbered highway fatalities for the first time last year.
In a stunning benchmark of heroin’s and other drugs’ increased use in Virginia, a pattern across much of the country, deaths from drug overdoses in 2014 cost 728 Virginians their lives.
That is compared with 700 highway fatalities that year, the most recent annual time frame available. Highway deaths have been dropping as drug deaths increase: The highway death toll in 2013 was 741 compared with 661 from drugs. In 2009, there were 750 traffic fatalities compared with 504 deaths from heroin and opioids.
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Need to give drug dealers stiff automatic jail sentences.
ReplyDeleteIf the druggies want it that bad, give them all Darwin awards.....the laws of stupidity keep stupid people from killing themselves....repeal them all - the gene pool will be better off for it!
ReplyDeleteOne good thing is it does open up jobs for people after they die.
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