Blogroll

Junkies Have 14X Higher Mortality Rate Than the General Population

Junkies Have 14X Higher Mortality Rate Than The General Population
Faced with the difficulty of directly quantifying the deaths related to cocaine based on general mortality statistics, the researchers compared mortality rates among a group of heroin and cocaine users with that of people among the general population …
Read more on Science 2.0

Despite Philip Seymour Hoffman, There Is No Heroin Crisis
Yet as my colleague at Reason, Jacob Sullum, was quick to document, the government statistics that track heroin use show absolutely no increase in regular use of the drug. According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (the … even if …
Read more on TIME