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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, APRIL 6 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In a June 5, 2012 photo, a heroin pouch lays next to a sidewalk on Chicago's Homan Avenue. Some states, including Illinois, are reporting a rise in heroin use as many addicts shift from more costly and harder-to-get prescription opiates to this cheaper alternative. In Cook County, the state's most-populous county, the medical examiner's office says heroin in 2013 accounted in for 224 deaths, or 60 percent of the 377 total opiate-linked deaths. (AP Photo/Robert Ray, File)

Surging heroin deaths across Ill. draw alarm, ire

By JIM SUHR - Associated Press

Surging heroin deaths in Illinois draw alarm, ire

By JIM SUHR - Associated Press