Statistics on Overdose
August 20, 2008 12:12 AM   Subscribe

I am looking for statistics about accidents and deaths due to overdose on prescribed drugs vs overdose on Illegal drugs.
posted by zouhair to Science & Nature (2 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Read this for all sorts of pertinent info.

From that page(and this particular data coming from a 1990 study):

"Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . 360,000 [legal]
Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000 [legal]
Prescribed drugs . . . . . . . 18,675 [legal]
Caffeine . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800 [legal]
Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,390 [illegal]
Heroin . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,147 [illegal]
Aspirin . . . . . . . . . . . . 986 [legal]
Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . 0 [illegal]"
posted by bradly at 1:37 AM on August 20, 2008


I can link to this, which is not really specific, but could maybe give you elements : iatrogenesis.
posted by nicolin at 4:13 AM on August 20, 2008


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