TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICANS BLAME DRUG COMPANIES FOR OPIOID CRISIS, NEW POLL FINDSBut deaths involving cocaine alone also increased, said the CDC’s Lawrence Scholl, one of the study’s authors. The researchers did not look at why cocaine deaths have been increasing. After several years of decline, overdose deaths involving cocaine began rising around 2012. The increase in cocaine deaths at least partly reflects trends in deaths from heroin, fentanyl and other opioids. About 28,000 deaths involved fentanyl or some other synthetic opioid, 15,500 involved heroin, and 14,500 involved prescription opioids.

Source: Fox News May 02, 2019 22:40 UTC