A Brief History of OD'ing in America
The conviction of Dr. Conrad Murray in Michael Jackson's death highlighted a worrying drug trend in the U.S. Less than a week before a jury found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter for improperly using an anesthetic to help Jackson sleep, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of overdose deaths from opioid pain relievers had tripled between 1999 and 2008, the most recent year for which data were available.
Today more people are dying from painkillers than from cocaine and heroin combined. Which raises a question: why are narcotics the drug of the moment? Why are so many of us anesthetizing ourselves to death?/.../
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