Prescription opioid painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined, according to a new study out of Brandeis University.
via Business Insider.
I’m fascinated by statistics about how we die. In Chicago gun crimes get all the media attention however heroin, and now I guess narcotic overdoses actually kill more. In any given year it is likely that more die in automobile accidents as well; the media doesn’t really cover those either. This is all media bias against guns.
Where is the 60 mins story on prescription narcotics? Where are the interviews with the parents of the dead teenager, crying, screaming into the camera? Why is Mayor Bloomberg silent on this? Why isn’t there a call for more regulation of these drugs? Isn’t there a single politician who will stand up and say that it’s all for the children?