Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Zulu Nation, he is responsible for spreading rap and hip-hop culture throughout the world. He has consistently made records nationally and internationally, every one to two years, spanning the 1980âs into the next Millennium 2000.
According to government data released Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. surpassed 50,000 in 2015, the highest mark in at least 15 years. More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever. The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids.
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.