The number of hospital stays for heroin overdoses increased 66 percent in Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2016, continuing the downward spiral of the state’s opioid epidemic, according to a report released Wednesday. Those hospital stays cost private and public insurance programs in the state $27 million,…
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Hospital stays for opioid overdoses increase 66 percent in two years
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