It’s worth noting that the primary cause of unintentional injury deaths for adults is unintentional poisoning. This was surprising to me; I would guess it’s mostly due to drug use.
Food poisoning is more common and serious than most people I’ve talked about it with have expected.
“Unintentional poisoning” is 36k deaths, according to Adele’s link. Food poisoning is only 3k deaths (5k according to an older article). I think most of the accidental poisoning deaths are drug overdoses. Half (broken link) of those are legal drugs. 2⁄3 of the legal ones are opiates, 1⁄3 benzos.
I am not convinced that food poisoning is even included in accidental poisoning deaths. Wonder has deaths classified by ICD codes. About half of accidental poisonings are listed as X44 other/unknown. My guess is that this means an overdose on street drugs.
Food poisoning is more common and serious than most people I’ve talked about it with have expected.
“Unintentional poisoning” is 36k deaths, according to Adele’s link. Food poisoning is only 3k deaths (5k according to an older article). I think most of the accidental poisoning deaths are drug overdoses. Half (broken link) of those are legal drugs. 2⁄3 of the legal ones are opiates, 1⁄3 benzos.
I am not convinced that food poisoning is even included in accidental poisoning deaths. Wonder has deaths classified by ICD codes. About half of accidental poisonings are listed as X44 other/unknown. My guess is that this means an overdose on street drugs.