Oh Look, The Statists Are Not Done
Karl Denninger
2013-01-25

"It never ends, does it?

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Drug abuse, much of it from prescription medication, now kills more Americans each year than homicide or car accidents. It has become the fastest-growing cause of accidental death in the U.S.

To put the magnitude of the issue in perspective, the death wave from drug abuse is now as big, in terms of annual deaths, as the one caused by HIV-AIDS in the late 1980s. That resulted in a national public-health response. And yet policy makers have been largely silent about prescription drugs.

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Wait -- you mean gun crime isn't the leading reason to put a boot on the neck of Americans? Now it's prescription drugs?

How about medical errors?

Preventable medical errors and infections kill 200,000 people a year in the United States, which is roughly a 1-in-1,650 chance per year -- roughly 60 per 100,000 or five times the rate claimed for prescription drugs and more than 12 times the rate as a whole for homicide, including gun homicide.

That is, it's 60 times more likely that you will be killed by a hospital or other medical facility due to a preventable error than it is that you will be murdered by any design (whether with a firearm or a golf club.) And it's 5 times more likely that you will be killed by such an error than you will die due to prescription drug abuse.
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There is only one way to put a stop to this downward spiral, and that is to admit that each person is a sovereign individual and has the right to make decisions for themselves -- and in doing so they must live with the consequences, whether those consequences are good or bad.

Yes, there will be those who make bad choices and will suffer the consequences. But this does not rise to the level of criminal conduct, no matter how much Evan -- and many others -- would like to make it so."

More at:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=216593

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #1

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Oh Look, The Statists Are Not Done
Karl Denninger
2013-01-25

"It never ends, does it?

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Drug abuse, much of it from prescription medication, now kills more Americans each year than homicide or car accidents. It has become the fastest-growing cause of accidental death in the U.S.

To put the magnitude of the issue in perspective, the death wave from drug abuse is now as big, in terms of annual deaths, as the one caused by HIV-AIDS in the late 1980s. That resulted in a national public-health response. And yet policy makers have been largely silent about prescription drugs.

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Not to worry. Bloomberg is on the case.

http://politicker.com/2013/01/bloomberg-...striction-plan/

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There is only one way to put a stop to this downward spiral, and that is to admit that each person is a sovereign individual and has the right to make decisions for themselves -- and in doing so they must live with the consequences, whether those consequences are good or bad.

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Hear, hear!

Quote: Heisenberg wrote in post #3

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More die from slipping in the shower than from guns each year.
The purpose is not to save lives. If it were, they would oppose abortion.

The purpose that drives them is appeasing their base.

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