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  • Drug Overdose Facts
  • During 2004, 11.3 million Americans had used prescription pain relievers non-medically in the past year.
  • Drug overdose deaths are medico-legal cases investigated by medical examiners or coroners. Although medical examiner charts are recognized as a key source of information for monitoring such deaths, the accuracy of official statistics on drug mortality remains uncertain.
  • An individuals liver can only metabolize a standard alcoholic beverage, one 12 ounce bottle of beer for example, one 4 ounce glass of wine or 1.5 ounces of 40% alcohol in one hour.
  • Drug overdose deaths in the United States have historically been linked to urban areas; according to recent government statistics, the rate of drug overdose deaths in rural areas throughout the U.S. has increased dramatically.
  • In 2010, approximately 7 million Americans reported using a prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes in the past month, 5.1 million of which abused narcotic pain relievers such as Vicodin specifically.
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