The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States - 1992
Table 5.4
Number of Deaths Attributable to Drug Abuse, 1992
| Cause |
ICD-9 Code |
Estimate This Study, 1992 Data |
Estimate Rice et al. (1990), 1985 Data |
| Drug psychoses |
292 |
13 |
11 |
| Drug dependence |
304 |
309 |
1,165 |
| Nondependent abuse of drugs |
305.2-305.9 |
777 |
524 |
| Polyneuropathy due to drugs |
357.0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Newborn affected by maternal transmission of narcotics and hallucinogens via placenta or breast milk
|
760.72, 760.73 |
NA |
0 |
| Drug withdrawal syndrome in newborn |
779.5 |
6 |
1 |
|
Accidental poisoning by drugs, medicaments, and biologicals
|
E850-858 (Rice et al. [1990] includes 859) |
5,951 |
3,552 |
|
Agricultural and horticultural chemical and pharmaceutical preparations other than plant foods and fertilizers
|
E863 |
18 |
0 |
|
Heroin, methadone, other opiates and related narcotics, and other drugs causing adverse effects in therapeutic use
|
E935.0-E935.2, E937-E940 |
27 |
33 |
|
Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted from poisoning by drugs, medicaments, and other
|
E980 |
1,464 |
832 |
|
Homicide and injury purposely inflicted by other persons (age > 15)
|
E960-E969 |
2,514 |
0 |
| Tuberculosis |
010-018 |
77 |
0 |
| Hepatitis C |
various |
900 |
0 |
| Hepatitis B |
various |
2,700 |
0 |
| AIDS |
various |
10,737 |
1,336 |
| TOTAL |
25,493 |
7,454 |
Sources: Attribution factors: Gottshalk et al. (1977); analysis by The Lewin Group.
Note: The 760.7 diagnosis contains several factors in addition to narcotic and hallucinogen drugs. There were 69 deaths under this diagnosis in 1992, but the five-digit cause of death values were not available. Number of deaths derived from the National Center for Health Statistics (1996b) (mortality by cause for 1992).
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