The number of fatal drug overdoses from heroin is on the rise in America and the demographics are also changing.

The Centers for Disease Control said they have seen a 40 percent increase in fatal heroin overdoses over the last two years.

The majority of heroin deaths are now white and from the midwest. This is a change from a decade ago, when the most were older black people from the west coast and northeast.

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