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« WashPo on Heller | Main | Law blogs on Heller »

Drug ODs killing more than gunshots

Posted by David Hardy · 6 February 2008 03:07 PM

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.

· Crime and statistics

4 Comments | Leave a comment

TJH | February 6, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply

Don't worry, when they restrict guns as much as drugs, those deaths-by-gun will catch up.

Mad Saint Jack | February 7, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply

They don't count how many gun deaths are drug related.

joe carpenter | February 8, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply

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.

Smith | February 10, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply

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.

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