Poisoning passed traffic accidents as the leading cause of injury death in the United States in 2008.
But we don?t need to hire Hercule Poirot -- nearly all those 41,000 poisoning deaths were accidental drug deaths, not potassium cyanide crystals slipped in someone?s afternoon tea.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? in Atlanta, mortality from drug poisoning increased sixfold in the United States since 1980. ?Misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, including opioid analgesic pain relievers, is responsible for much of the increase,? said a report from the National Vital Statistics System.
Only 38,000 people died from motor vehicle crashes in 2008, while 41,000 died from poisoning.
Better car engineering, particularly good restraints like seat belts and airbags, has helped push the traffic accident death rate down by almost one half since 1980. From 1998 to 2008, while the U.S. traffic death rate dropped 15 percent to 12.5 per 100,000 population, the poisoning rate jumped 90 percent to 13.5 per 100,000 people.
California was one of 30 states where the poisoning death rate exceeded the traffic fatality rate in 2008.
In 2008, 77 percent of drug poisoning deaths were unintentional, while 13 percent were suicides and 9 percent were of ?undetermined intent.?
Pain relieving opioid analgesics (morphine, hydrocondone, oxycondone, methadone, fentanyl) accounted for more than 40 percent of the 36,500 drug poisoning deaths in 2008.
Though teenagers are prone to ...
Poisoning passed traffic accidents as the leading cause of injury death in the United States in 2008.
But we don?t need to hire Hercule Poirot -- nearly all those 41,000 poisoning deaths were accidental drug deaths, not potassium cyanide crystals slipped in someone?s afternoon tea.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? in Atlanta, mortality from drug poisoning increased sixfold in the United States since 1980. ?Misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, including opioid analgesic pain relievers, is responsible for much of the increase,? said a report from the National Vital Statistics System.
Only 38,000 people died from motor vehicle crashes in 2008, while 41,000 died from poisoning.
Better car engineering, particularly good restraints like seat belts and airbags, has helped push the traffic accident death rate down by almost one half since 1980. From 1998 to 2008, while the U.S. traffic death rate dropped 15 percent to 12.5 per 100,000 population, the poisoning rate jumped 90 percent to 13.5 per 100,000 people.
California was one of 30 states where the poisoning death rate exceeded the traffic fatality rate in 2008.
In 2008, 77 percent of drug poisoning deaths were unintentional, while 13 percent were suicides and 9 percent were of ?undetermined intent.?
Pain relieving opioid analgesics (morphine, hydrocondone, oxycondone, methadone, fentanyl) accounted for more than 40 percent of the 36,500 drug poisoning deaths in 2008.
Though teenagers are prone to experiment with drugs, they were not very likely to die from drug poisoning -- the 15-24 year old group fell near the bottom of the CDC table in 2008, with those 45-54 years old far above them at the top. Indeed, the 45-54 year old group passed the 35-44 year old group in about 2004 to rise to the top of the chart, and it has widened its lead since.
Deaths aren?t the only thing that has increased. Because prescription and over-the-counter drug use has boomed since 1980, visits to the emergency room for problems caused by opioid analgesics have also jumped. They doubled just between 2004 and 2008.
Injury deaths include ?forces external to the body? -- drowning, falling, suffocation, firearms, fires, poisoning and traffic accidents.
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