Chart of the day: Deaths from drugs, poison, and cars | The Incidental Economist

Chart of the day: Deaths from drugs, poison, and cars

  January 5, 2013 at 8:00 am

  Austin Frakt

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H/t: Claire Boissevain-Crooke. The source document is by Christopher Jones of the CDC (PDF). Other charts therein show that the vast majority of drug overdoses are unintentional (not suicide) and most of the growth in drug overdose is with opiods. For those interested in this area, the whole thing is worth a look. Jones’s presentation was part of set on drug prescribing, coverage, and monitoring that includes those by others.

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- by Floccina on January 5th, 2013 at 20:19
  
  Interesting it a potential cause of iatrogenic death that could explain why some people might do better without insurance than with medicaid.
  
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