Drug overdose deaths hit record in 2014
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More than 47,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2014, the deadliest year on record, according to federal data.
More than 60 percent of the overdoses, a 6 percent increase from 2013, were from painkillers or heroin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The government found that more people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. last year than any previous year on record. CDC added that from 2000 to 2014, nearly half a million Americans died from overdoses.