There was a heroin or opioid overdose in California every 45 minutes in 2013, and the rural North State saw the worst of it. That’s according to an exhaustive report put out by The Sacramento Bee.
The report looks at data between 2006 and 2013, during which time opioid overdoses increased by 50 percent.
Shasta County saw more than 1,100 overdoses over that seven-year period.
The only counties with a higher rate of overdose were Humboldt, Lake, and Plumas — which had 9.1 overdoses per 10,000 residents, the most in the state.
