Grim milestone: In 2015 more died from heroin than guns

Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC reported the Washington Post.

That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 to 2015.

In a grim milestone, more people died from heroin-related causes than from gun homicides in 2015. As recently as 2007, gun homicides outnumbered heroin deaths by more than 5 to 1.

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