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Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people.[3]The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides data on drug overdose death rates and totals in the United States.
"Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053. PMID:17382831. For more information, see image. It contains not only the physical harm and dependence data like the aforementioned image, but also the mean social harm of each drug.
English: A rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Data source is the March 24, 2007 article: Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053.
During times of economic distress such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2008 recession, harmful rates of drug use has been seen to increase in populations experiencing joblessness and disadvantaged populations; [153] [202] moreover, Carpenter et al. found evidence that economic downturns lead to increases in the intensity of prescription pain ...
Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, Solvents, 4-MTA, LSD, GHB, Ecstasy, Alkyl nitrites and Khat get zero or very low values in the category 'intravenous harm' (I guess simply because it is not possible at all to use the drug this way or not possible for the drug to have the desired effect this way), but for the average harm over these low values is ...
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Acute toxicity of drugs versus regulatory status. In J. M. Fish (Ed.),Drugs and Society: U.S. Public Policy, pp.149-162, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Also published at Professor Gable's faculty page. This chart contains the same information as File:Drug_safety_and_dependence.png except the X-axis is inverted.
The area under the effect curve (AUEC) is an integral of the effect of a drug over time, estimated as a previously-established function of concentration. It was proposed to be used instead of AUC in animal-to-human dose translation, as computer simulation shows that it could cope better with half-life and dosing schedule variations than AUC.