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Drug ODs killing more than gunshots
Story here. Drug deaths (predominantly among illicit users, but the story has some startling reports of accidental deaths) doubled 1994-2004. The biggest rise was in prescription drugs (oxycodone, for example), which went up 152% in five years.
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They don't count how many gun deaths are drug related.
I would suspect that the charts are traveling in both directions. A rise in drug deaths from the medicating of society, and a drop in gun deaths from better training- though usualy forced by concealed permit laws, etc.
The report is really startling, and I felt bad to know that most of the deaths comes from prescribed medicines. I also accept Jack view on this, if we count the gun deaths which drug related then the number will even higher.
Don't worry, when they restrict guns as much as drugs, those deaths-by-gun will catch up.