Rick Karlin reports in Capitol Confidential that the overdose death rate in New York has jumped 71 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to a Rockefeller Institute report. The opioid epidemic has mostly hit older users in upstate and suburban areas. The death rate from drugs in New York grew between 2010 (9.1 deaths per every 100K people) and 2015 (15.2 deaths per every 100K people). Men die more often from overdoses or chronic drug abuse then women, and whites more than blacks and Hispanics. New York State ranked 34th in the nation in the overall death rate from overdoses and chronic drug abuse. Read the full story in Capitol Confidential.