The number of heroin related overdose deaths per 100,000 nearly doubled in Michigan and experts say opioid pain relievers, such as Oxycontin, Demerol, and Vicodin, is the reason. If patients who are prescribed these narcotics are not monitored closely, heroin addictions can develop.
WJR’s Marie Osborne takes a closer look at the opioid epidemic in her series “The Killer at Home:”