So in reality the pharmaceutical companys are killing more than the illegal drug trade. The title suggests other wise. When most ( so I think ) think DRUGS they dont think of pharmaceutical companys they thing about illegal drugs unfortunately % ).

drugs kill more people than anything else. tobacco is a drug. it kills 450,000 people a year. FDA regulated prescription drugs kill 200,000 a year. lets drag that ugly drug tobacco out into the light and legalize harmless tobacco..hear me phillip morris ? FIRE IT UP

Hey, where is the scourge cannabis on that graph?! Oh yeah, it has never killed anyone.

observe and note: no marijuana!

shit load of good reasons for that :)

Pain = bad
Painkiller = good

Overdoses have nothing to do with pain. Get that part straight. People who actually need pain killers can't get them due to all this b.s. hype, and doctors can get more for them selling them on the black market like they do, and nobody is doing shit about it.

Painkillers are very bad . Even if they don't kill you , they damage parts of your body that , I personally , would rather keep . A good quality ginseng extract helps ward off some side effects , but not many . I wish they would prescribe the use of herbs . How often is pain responsible for depression ? It all makes money for big pharma . Even white willow and tumeric cannot be patented . So no physician will mention them as an alternative . It is criminal how they try make us suffer and rob us as well .

now the DEA is going to start raiding DMV offices everywhere... it will be MADNESS!

No doubt these statistics will surface and be pointed at during our struggle to legalize marijuana. The old Gateway theory will be aired again. The fact that legal meds played such an important part in the figures will be ignored.

The fact that pot doesn't appear on this list isn't surpising to those of us that know anything about it. That methadone is lethal comes as no news either. Trying to deal with addiction by substituting another substance is clue-less to begin with.

One interesting point though. You'll notice that the home of the hippies, the state that's made the news time and again concerning drugs; CALIFORNIA, isn't on the list. Could it be that because the taboo isn't as strong there as elsewhere has resulted in a better informed public? Folks with the potential for addiction are better able to resist it?

hummmm.........

Yes, but which drugs? I don't see marijuana, magic mushrooms, or LSD on that list.

For good reason.

You can't just lump 'drugs' into one category. Cus then you run the risk of sounding like a moron when I say 'what about chemo therapy'? That's a drug, does that count?

Out of all of the people who died from drug related death, prescribed drugs included, what percentage of the people who died had health care?

Could psychological help prevent drug overdose?

its about time current covered drug abuse that wasnt blaming cannabis. maybe i will watch current tv again ?
how about some positive stories about Cannabis on current......?

LOL thats right no pot related deaths, free the weed dont drive people to drink or get pilled up.

so.... what this is saying then is, while people were perfecting their driving skills, they forgot how to party, right? ? ?

very nice graphics...

where is the alcohol line?
is the researcher aware that alcohol is a drug, legal but letal, way more dangerous than cocaine

actually, the normal way is starting with booze and then get an upgrade to cocaine

is people o.d. with cocaine plus alcohol? or just the illegal drug is present?

So, judging by the graphic, Methadone will kill you. Herion might kill you. Or heroin users don't drive cars. Or maybe, people/addicts who have cars also have health insurance, so they can afford to get the good shit, methadone......and then crash their cars. Either way, we should legalize marijuana. And acid.

according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), adverse drug reactions from drugs that are properly prescribed and properly administered cause about 106,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S. 
Compare this to the death toll from illegal drugs -- which is about 10,000 per year -- and you begin to see the magnitude of the problem that the pharmaceutical industry is propagating. 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/22/Accidental-Prescri...

Hah not one Pot death should it still be considered a drug?

wait wait wait....

Methadone deaths on the rise, heroin deaths on the outs.

Methadone??

The gov/pharma have been telling us this is a safer way to treat opiat addiction. Seems like it isn't any safer, but it is profitable.

good find ! smoke kind ! help mind ! laws blind !

so if pot was legal and available.. do you think we would have so many abuses of the illegal drugs?

hey weed isn't on that list

WONDER WHY!?

depression is the real killer, drugs are just a symptom.
A growing percentage of people in the US are feeling disconnected, and abused. They turn to the easiest way to escape these feelings, which the TV ads tell them will help them return to a happy life. Instead of working through their feelings they validate them and become dependent on drugs in a very progressive spiral.

Has any one noticed that cannabis is not on that chart? I do not know of any one that has ever died from a cannabis over dose. So why is it illegal?