Nov 19
Famous Florida Oxycontin Use Survivor
The Florida Medical Examiners Commission says that prescription drugs kill more than illegal drugs:
An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines put together. According to state law enforcement officials, this is a sign of a burgeoning prescription drug abuse problem.
Painkillers Vicodin and Oxycontin killed 2328 people in FL, versus 843 for cocaine.
I don’t know how much of this was suicide. Some of it was dangerously mixing booze and these drugs.
Anyway…. take care and if you have painkillers, lock them up to keep them from your teenagers.