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February 3, 2014
Drug Overdoses Are Killing More People Than Cars, Guns
According to the latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdoses were responsible for 38,329 deaths in 2010,30,006 of which were unintentional. That's a rate of 105 every day, and that number doesn't take into account the 6,748 people treated every day for the misuse or abuse of drugs. In comparison, traffic accidents were responsible for 33,687 deaths in 2010. Firearms killed 31,672 people, and 26,852 died as a result of falling. America, It's Time For An Intervention
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 3, 2014 4:10 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Darwin always wins.
Posted by: Fat Man at February 3, 2014 5:16 PM
Intervention by whom?
Lemme guess.
Lying thieves with guns.
wunnerful
Posted by: ghostsniper at February 3, 2014 5:42 PM
We need to ban drugs.
Posted by: Potsie at February 3, 2014 5:47 PM
The War on Drugs is not working, what is the answer? As any statist will tell you SPEND MORE MONEY! Grow government, make tougher laws. Increase police funding.
Posted by: Potsie at February 3, 2014 5:49 PM
Paging Mr Darwin. Charles Darwin, white courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Glenn at February 3, 2014 6:12 PM
Paging Mr Darwin. Charles Darwin, white courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Glenn at February 3, 2014 6:12 PM
And really, Who flipping cares? I'm sorry but who cares?
Posted by: Glenn at February 3, 2014 7:57 PM
Who cares, you say? Not nearly enough people are dying of drugs nor are they dying quickly enough. You should care. Darwin is losing.
Posted by: james wilson at February 3, 2014 10:38 PM
Potsie: best laugh of the day award. That one actually did make me laugh out loud.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at February 3, 2014 11:00 PM
The War on Drugs was waged to lose.
Posted by: ErisGuy at February 4, 2014 4:34 AM
ErisGuy anything that begins with "The War on..." is waged to lose. It is just a plan to shuffle tax-payer money around to various government agencies. It is also self replicating, in order for the money to flow the problem must remain. The problem was never going to be solved because there is too much money moving.
War on Poverty... Plenty of money wasted people are still poor.
War on Crime... Plenty of money wasted, there are higher levels of crime.
War on Drugs... plenty of money wasted and drugs are everywhere.
War on Terror... plenty of money wasted and there is still terrorism.
Posted by: Potsie at February 4, 2014 5:23 AM
Hey, given the new smack, there won't be many users left to buy that crap in the near future. Darwin isn't losing. The War on Drugs works; drugs are winning.
Posted by: Peccable at February 4, 2014 5:35 AM
We are bacteria and drugs are antibiotics. Overusing drugs will make us genetically immune to the drugs.
Just like alcohol. Why do you think aboriginals have such terrible alcohol problems? No immunity. Yet.
Posted by: Fred Z at February 4, 2014 5:46 AM
"You reap what you sew" keeps running through my mind.
Posted by: chasmatic at February 4, 2014 6:12 AM
I b'lieve "sow" is what gets reaped.....
Posted by: Rob De Witt at February 4, 2014 7:07 AM
Sows get reaped into bacon.
Mmmmmm......bacon....
Posted by: ghostsniper at February 4, 2014 7:29 AM
Gotcha Rob. Too much red dirt marijuana back in the day.
now all's I got is a caffeine jones.
Another few things running' round up there is Emmett Grogan and the Diggers and Farina's boook "Been down so long it looks like up to me:
funny what sticks, uh?
Posted by: chasmatic at February 4, 2014 9:26 AM
Maybe if we just said no to drugs, what we did and that didn't work? Well then lets pass laws to make drugs illegal. What you say we did that already? I know, lets have school programs telling about the dangers of drug use. Oh no don't tell me you tried that already too. How about setting up local, state and federal agencies to combat the problem and spend lots of money and.....
Posted by: tripletap at February 4, 2014 11:01 AM
Is bacon a drug? If it is then I'm an outlaw.
Posted by: USS Ben at February 4, 2014 7:20 PM
Is bacon a drug? If it is then I'm an outlaw.
Posted by: USS Ben at February 4, 2014 7:20 PM
chas,
Jeeesus.....
Gnossos Pappadopoulos.
Mixture 69.
Knee socks.
That was around '67 or 8 for me, if I recall - merest beginning of a 40-year hegira of wasted potential.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at February 5, 2014 2:21 PM
Don't fear the bacon reaper. Explore the space.
Posted by: ghostsniper at February 5, 2014 5:33 PM