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Heroin Killing More Suburban Teens
Statistics are showing that young Americans are dying at rates not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic. What is the cause of these deaths? It may surprise you: drug overdose. It turns out that since 1999, deaths caused by drug overdoses have multiplied five-times among young, white Americans. The New York Times investigative reporter Sarah Cohen joins us with a look at the data.