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Originally Posted by Socks
How can that even be calculated with any accuracy? Many people who use prescription drugs are on a *lot* of different kinds. Did they all kill the person? Did they help? Hurt? I mean how can you single out which drug was the "killer drug" ?
And then there's lots of prescription deaths that are likely people selling them to others
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Well here are some statistics from the article I posted above
38,329 deaths in the USA were caused by drug overdoses. Deaths caused by prescription drugs included:
75.2% - opioids
29.4% - benzodiazepines
17.6% - antidepressants
7.8% - medications used for epilepsy and Parkinson's disease
In November, 2011,
the CDC reported that more Americans died form prescription painkiller overdoses than all deaths from cocaine and heroin combined.