Italian Drug Toll Soars
Reuters
ROME —
Italy has recorded a sharp increase in the number of deaths from drug overdose, according to newly released official statistics.
A total of 440 Italians died as a result of drug overdoses in the first 11 months of 1987, almost double the 262 deaths from drugs recorded for all of 1986.
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