Age concern in largest ever study of heroin user deaths

University of Manchester, for public release 27-Jan-2015

In the largest study of opioids users ever undertaken, the researchers used records of 198,247 people in England. Opioid users were six times more likely to die prematurely than people in the general population. Almost one in ten of these deaths were due to suicide, more than four times the rate in the general population.

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