Latest post from CDC about drug poisoning deaths

Poisoning Deaths 1999 - 2009

The CDC Quick­Stats for the week is about drug poi­son­ing deaths.  The trends noticed over the last sev­eral years remain:  acci­den­tal drug over­dosage out­paces inten­tional sui­cides by poi­son­ing by a large amount.

Look here and here for more infor­ma­tion from this site about drug pat­terns both lead­ing to ED vis­its and over­dosage death.

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