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I did an analysis a couple years ago and found that drug misuse kills about a third of Americans. Possibly even more if you include the new study that found tha
by Alex3917 11y ago
I did an analysis a couple years ago and found that drug misuse kills about a third of Americans. Possibly even more if you include the new study that found that the surgeon general's report is undercounting tobacco deaths by 80k per year or whatever, which I didn't because that wasn't out at the time.
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-statistic-you-never-hear-about-drugs.html http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-sta...
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1407211#abstract http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1407211#abstract
- danieltillett 11y agoAlex interesting post, but I would not put too much value in the ADR numbers. Getting accurate information on the cause of death due to ADR is not easy given death in hospital rarely has a single cause.