From Naturalnews.com– the Florida Medical Examiners Commission posted the numbers from 2007.
In 2007, cocaine was responsible for 843 deaths, heroin for 121, methamphetamines for 25 and marijuana for zero, for a total of 989 deaths. In contrast, 2,328 people were killed by opioid painkillers, including Vicodin and Oxycontin, and 743 were killed by drugs containing benzodiazepine, including the depressants Valium and Xanax.
Alcohol directly caused 466 deaths, but was found in the bodies of 4,179 cadavers in all.
So it seems that the new epidemic is having corporate pharmaceutical companies push drugs “legally” as opposed to the individual pushing drugs “illicitly”? This is also evidently a problem in rural america as well.
The article goes on to state:
