City Pill Popping Drives Heroin Use

Pill-Popping New Yorkers Are Turning To Heroin: Report

New Yorkers are popping so many painkillers that prescriptions for oxycodone have doubled citywide since 2007 -- leading some into harder drugs like heroin, which prosecutors say is actually cheaper to procure in New York than pills.

A new report released this month from the city's Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor details an "alarming surge" of prescription pill abuse.

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