Operating Tips. 1  In general, all that is necessary to hook up a receiver and PC to receive ACARS is a good shielded connection from the speaker or earphone of the scanner to the soundcard. A discriminator tap is not required, since it is not involved in AM reception.
Ohio had the second-highest number of drug overdose deaths nationwide in 2014, a number that's soaring, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday. Heroin and prescription pain relievers took many of those 2,744 lives in Ohio. That's nearly one death every three hours last year. In Kentucky, there were more than 1,000 deaths. These grim totals placed both Ohio and Kentucky among the five states with the highest rates of drug overdose deaths as measured per 100,000 residents.
Overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, figures reveal. 1  The New York Times has published preliminary CDC data on overdose deaths. 2  It shows 59,000-65,000 Americans under 50 died of overdoses in 2016. 3  That is a higher annual death rate than ever seen from HIV or gun violence.