Accidental overdoses from prescription opioids such as Vicodin and Oxycontin soared 20 percent last year, according to my review of thousands of Orange County coroner records.
The victims included all races, nearly all cities. Many lived in south county and along our gold coast stretching from Seal Beach to San Clemente.
The highest concentration of victims were middle-age women. Of the 66 women who died from accidental opioid overdoses, 49 were in their 40s or older.
Understand, cultural and generational divisions that once existed between cartel-manufactured heroin and pharmaceutically made opioids have vanished.
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