Drug overdoses in rural America
The Journal of the American Medical Association has a rare free full-text article posted on its Web site examining the recent, significant increase in deaths from overdoses of prescription narcotics. The study found that most of the deaths were from nonmedical uses of the drugs.
As it happens, I've had a request for data on overdose deaths in to North Carolina's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for a couple of months now. I'll be, ahem, jogging their memory again this morning.
