Florida's drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit. An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
Read article in the New York Times (USA)
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says
Posted by Willow at 8:09 pm
Labels: avoidable deaths, Drugs, Florida Medical Examiners Commission, prescription drugs
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