Overdosing on Reality: New NC Law Needed Because Problem is Now an Epidemic

HICKORY N.C. — Time was when you heard about someone overdosing it usually meant they had ingested or injected too much illicit narcotics. Now, when you hear someone has overdosed the likely culprit could just as easily be prescription drugs. Overdose deaths from prescription pain killers now exceed both heroine and cocaine overdose deaths, with … Read more