Deaths From Combining Drugs And/or Alcohol Skyrocket

Asking patients to monitor their own medications can be fatal, as exemplified by the recent death of actor Heath Ledger. In the first large-scale study of home medication consumption, sociologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a 3,196 percent increase in fatal domestic medication errors involving alcohol and/or street drugs. Their study examines nearly 50 million U.S.

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on July 29th, 2008