Comments on: Statistics on Overdose

Question: Statistics on Overdose

zouhair — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:12:33 -0800

I am looking for statistics about accidents and deaths due to overdose on prescribed drugs vs overdose on Illegal drugs.

By: bradly

bradly — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:37:56 -0800

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]"

By: nicolin

nicolin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:13:44 -0800

I can link to this, which is not really specific, but could maybe give you elements : iatrogenesis.