The number of people dying from drug overdoses in the United States continues to climb.

In Ohio alone 1,914 people lost their lives in 2012 to a drug overdose. These latest numbers reveal that more people are dying from drugs than traffic accidents.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, who represents the Valley, says, “We know we’ve got a problem when it’s easier to get heroin than it is to get the treatment that so many of these patients want.”