Feds: Some coroners thwarting drug overdose data efforts
October 6, 2016
PITTSBURGH (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — Some of the state's coroners, often in less-populated, more rural counties, are thwarting efforts to gather drug overdose data needed to fight its heroin and opioid epidemic, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
More than 3,500 people are known to have died from drug overdoses in Pennsylvania last year, most linked to heroin or opioid painkillers, and even more are expected to die this year, U.S. Attorney David Hickton said.
He spoke at a news conference on a report by the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics. The institute is working with his of...
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