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NW Drug Deaths

NPR
Published July 20, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

A report just published by the Centers for Disease control says the number of deaths from heroin overdoses has more than doubled in Seattle and Portland over the last few years. Jeff Brady from KOPB in Portland visited a local drug treatment center and filed this report.

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