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MI City: Heroin Killed More Than Car Crashes in 2015

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Lansing’s overdose death rate increased 700 percent.

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Police in Lansing, Michigan, said they saw more heroin-related deaths than homicides or car-accident deaths last year. Police Chief Mike Yankowski said the number of heroin deaths in 2015, at 26, was “eye-popping.” He added, “That is a 700 percent increase from [2014], when we had three.”

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