오늘 아침 켈리포니아, LA times에서 퍼온 글입니다. 얼마전 학회장 컬럼에 올린 글과 연관성이 있어 올립니다. 영어 해석? 영어 공부겸해서 천천히 사전찾아가면서 읽어보세요. 우리 주위에도 통증치료에 약물만 의존하는 사람이 많습니다. 죽음을 부르는 약물 부작용의 결과를 알리고 여러분들의 카이로프랙틱 손으로 답하세요.

 

 

By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog

December 20, 2011, 9:28 a.m.

 

Ninety percent of poisoning deaths in the United States are due to drugs, the federal government reported Tuesday. Drug poisoning deaths now outnumber traffic deaths as the leading cause of injury death in the country.The report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, points to misuse or abuse of prescription drugs as the driver of the upward trend in poisoning deaths. The number of deaths from opioid painkillers (such as morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone) rose from 4,000 per year in 1999 to 14,800 in 2008.Those deaths are more common among males, people ages 45 to 54, non-Hispanic whites, American Indians or Alaska Natives than among other groups, the report said. About three-quarters of the deaths were accidental, 13% were suicides and 9% were undetermined, it said.Overall, there were 41,000 poisoning deaths in the U.S. in 2008, the latest year for which statistics are available.Although a concerted public-health campaign has lowered the rate of traffic fatalities over the last three decades, a similar effort may be necessary to curb the trend of poisoning deaths, the authors of the report said.