Creator:

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

Geography:

North America > United States

Categories:

• Injuries

Tags:

• cannabis
• cocaine
• deaths
• drugs
• heroin
• methadone
• narcotics
• poisoningson
• suicide

Date:

1999-2005

URL:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/poisoning/poisoning.pdf

Annotation:

The estimates in this report are from the National Vital Statistics System.  Poisoning deaths include those resulting from accidental or intentional overdoses of a drug, being given the wrong drug, taking the wrong drug in error, or taking a drug inadvertently.