Prescription Drugs Kill More than Homicide in New York City

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By Anthony Gucciardi

There’s a crisis in New York City. Scanning the media headlines, we read one of the larger titles of the week, in which The Independent states “Heroin is responsible for more deaths than homicide in New York City.”

It’s a true story. Heroin overdoses killed over 400 people in 2013 — 420 to be exact. Homicides were only responsible for (a still high) 335 deaths. But what about prescription medications? Where are those preventable deaths found within the report?

I’m talking about painkillers, which killed over 16,000 people in 2010 alone. And more than 12 million people are taking them without …read more

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