{"id":2154,"date":"2009-07-17T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:27:58","slug":"heroin-cocaine-alcohol-top-drug-related-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/heroin-cocaine-alcohol-top-drug-related-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol Top Drug-Related Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #000099; font-family: Verdana;\">Medical examiners taking part in the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) said that overdoses of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol mixed with other drugs topped the causes of drug-related deaths in 2000, Substance Abuse Funding News reported April 9.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>The report, \u2018Mortality Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network 2000\u2019, found that in 30 cities, more than half of the deaths reported to DAWN were drug-induced and involved multiple drugs.\u00a0 The data was based on death reports made to DAWN in 2000 from 137 medical examiner jurisdictions from 43 cities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Among the jurisdictions taking part in the study, the highest number of drug-related deaths were reported from Los Angeles, Calif, 1, 192; Philadelphia, Pa., 942; New York City, N.Y., 924; Chicago, Ill., 869; and Detroit, Mich., 704.<em>Source: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).\u00a0 May 2002<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical examiners taking part in the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) said that overdoses of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol mixed with other drugs topped the causes of drug-related deaths in 2000, Substance Abuse Funding News reported April 9. The report, \u2018Mortality Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network 2000\u2019, found that in 30 cities, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,68,64,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-cocaine","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-health","category-heroin-methadone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}