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Drug Poisoning

CDC counted 26,389 unintentional drug poisoning deaths in the United States in 2006, with the age-adjusted death rate more than doubling since 1999, from 4.0 to 8.8 per 100,000. Opioid pain medications were involved in more than half of the deaths in which a drug was specified.

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