Local Falling out A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. But more people died from opioid overdoses than homicides last year in the District of Columbia as local government officials looked the other way. The District saw 279 people die of opioid overdoses last year, a figure that surpassed the city’s homicides and was greater than three times the number of opioid deaths in 2014. Renee Howell, 59, displays her supply of naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses. Renee Howell, 59, displays her supply of naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses.

Source: Washington Post December 18, 2018 13:05 UTC