Don't have sex! was/Re: What Ever You Do, Don't Go Home

On Jul 29, 7:52 pm, azwhist...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
updated 4:36 p.m. EDT, Mon July 28, 2008

Home deaths from drug errors soar

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP)  -- Deaths from medication mistakes at home,
such as actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically
during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates
finds.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/07/28/fatal.drug.errors.ap/index.html

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 But Phillips said there were no significant increases in other
poisonings, such as suicidal overdoses or homicides, so more testing
doesn't explain the huge increase. The analysis excluded suicides,
homicides and deaths related to side effects.

The increase was steepest in death rates from mixing medicine with
alcohol or street drugs at home; that death rate climbed from 0.04 per
100,000 people in 1983 to 1.29 per 100,000 people in 2004.

Many patients ignore the risk of mixing alcohol with prescriptions,
said Cynthia Kuhn of Duke University Medical Center, who was not
involved in the study.

"They think, 'Oh, one drink won't hurt.' Then they have three or
four," Kuhn said.

The increase in deaths was highest among baby boomers, people in their
40s and 50s.
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