Deaths from heroin and opioid pain-killer overdoses increased sharply in 2014, by 14 percent, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Friday. 2014's record number of opoid overdose deaths continues an upward trend the CDC has tracked over the past several years. The CDC reports that heroin-related deaths have tripled since 2010 and that almost a half-million Americans died from drug overdoses between the years 2000 and 2014.
