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White House to Tackle Rising Heroin-Related Deaths

Benjie Batanes   |

Aug 17, 2015 09:11 AM EDT

The White House announced a new initiative on Monday that will refocus the government's approach to healing heroin addicts instead of putting them in jail. This move is aimed at reducing the number of heroine-related deaths, which has risen by almost 400 percent between 2002 to 2013.