From drugs elderly people die more often
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According to the National Statistical Service, for the first time in the history of research, the mortality of elderly women from drugs and drugs exceeded the death rates of young women.
Official data indicate that the number of deaths among 50-year-olds and 60-year-olds from accidental drug overdoses and suicides is significantly higher than death for the same reasons among twenty-year-old girls.
As for women at the age of forty, there is also a tendency to increase the death rate in comparison with the indicators of the past.
Antidepressant drugs are among the drugs and drugs that caused death, but paracetamol and methadone are to blame in most cases of death.
"This statistic tells us that less dangerous people die from the most dangerous drugs, especially young ones, than from other drugs," said Rosanna O'Connor, representative of the National Committee on Substance Abuse.
In 2011, there was a decline in the male mortality rate, but at the same time an increase in the female. The main reason for this was the abuse of drugs by the fairer sex.
These data indicate a decrease in drug use and a drop in demand for medical services among young people. As a rule, people over forty with health problems actively use medicines, at the risk of exceeding the permissible standards and poisoning.
In 2011, the death rate from drugs among women aged 40 to 49 years was almost as high as among 30-39-year-olds. On average, there were 28.3 deaths per million people.
The death rate among 40-49-year-old women continued to grow and compared to 2007 was much higher. Although the peak mortality was in 2008.
For a million women aged 50 to 69 years in 2011, there were 14.4 deaths from drugs and drugs, which is the highest since 1993, when the study started. This indicator for the first time exceeded the death rate among 20-29-year-olds (13.3 deaths per million women).
Most drug dependent men still die of heroin, despite a sharp decrease in this indicator in recent years. Women to death from drugs most often brought antidepressants.
Noticeably increased the number of deaths from the anesthetic tramadol. In 1996, there was only one death from tramadol, and in the past - 154, which is due to the fact that it became much more likely to be prescribed to patients.
The number of deaths from barbiturates is also increasing, from six in 2007 to 37 in the past, despite the fact that these drugs are prescribed less and less. The National Statistical Service notes that virtually all deaths from taking barbiturates and helium gas were suicides.
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