New report from the Drug Policy Alliance and support for the solution from Massachusetts.
Preventing Overdose, Saving Lives
Strategies for Combating a National Crisis
Drug Policy Alliance
Overdose Prevention Report 2009
From the report:
•More than 22,400 people died following an accidental drug overdose in 2005.
•Nationally, accidental drug overdose deaths increased more than 400 percent between 1980 and 1999 and more than doubled between 1999 and 2005.
•Overdose is the number one injury-related killer among adults ages 35-54.
(I looked up the 2006 data. Overdose remained the leading cause of accidental death for the 35-54yo bracket. Additionally, the total number of overdose deaths increased.)
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