An Increasingly Steeper Red Line: Heroin-Related Overdose Deaths in Wisconsin

Interactive graphic: Tracking heroin's rise in Wisconsin. (Green Bay Press-Gazette, 6/13/2013)

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We're likely to see an even steeper rise in the red line once the final statewide statistics for 2013 become available.

Heroin-related overdose deaths spike 34% in 2013 in Milwaukee County.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4/14/2014)

Snapshot of heroin use, deaths in 26 states, including Louisiana.  (New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/5/2014)

WISCONSIN:  Crime involving heroin is growing, according to data showing that state crime labs processed 1,056 heroin cases in 57 of Wisconsin's 72 counties in 2013, up from 648 cases in 56 counties in 2012 and 579 cases in 37 counties in 2011. The number of heroin-related arrests statewide rose from 267 in 2008 to 673 in 2012.

Related posts:
Heroin at the Ann Arbor District Library.  (3/18/2014)
Hudson Wisconsin as the face of America's heroin scourge.  (2/11/2014)
Wisconsin heroin crisis.  (12/8/2013)