Heroin now kills more people than guns as drugs overdoses claim 50,000 lives in US last year | Daily Mail Online: The number of heroin deaths rose 23% to 12,989, more than gun homicides
Fentanyl - a synthetic opiate - claimed 16,000 lives, equivalent to 44 per day
Heroin claimed the life of Hollywood actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014
But the majority of those killed are ordinary people in smalltown America
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