Did You Know?

Ohio averages 23 heroin deaths every week. Ohio also loses an average of 38 people every week due to opioid overdose. Put another way, Ohio loses nearly 7 people every day due to heroin and opioid-related deaths.
Drug overdoses in Ohio have increased 419 percent in 10 years, from 296 to 1539.
In Franklin County this year, the average age of those who died from a heroin overdose is 39 years old.
The number of children services cases in Ohio opened because of heroin abuse has increased 83 percent between 2010 and 2013. In 2010, 9 percent of all Franklin County foster care cases were parents who were dealing with drug abuse issues. In 2014, that number had risen to 13 percent.
The number of women in jails across the Ohio has increased nearly 50 percent between 2013 and 2014, with many sheriffs attributing the rise to heroin.
The number of drug-dependent babies admitted to Nationwide Children’s Hospitals has increased 590% from 2005 – 2014. In 2014, there were 214 drug-addicted babies admitted locally.
Doctors dispensed more than 750,630,661 doses of opioids in 2014. Abuse of opioids is considered by many to be a precursor to heroin use.
Ohio patients who were prescribed opioids received on average 143 doses of the drug for a three-month period.Opioids are being dispensed at such a rate in Ohio that if spread out across the state each Ohioan would have been prescribed about 5 pills every month this year.

~ Source: WBNS 10TV – Heroin at Home