Re: Number of deaths by psychiatric medication » Lou PIlder

Posted by Tabitha on July 25, 2016, at 11:50:53

In reply to Lou's response-jump, jump, Tabitha, posted by Lou PIlder on July 24, 2016, at 19:20:09

> You wrote,[...please don't exaggerate..]
> > This was your response to that I wrote that thousands of people including children are killed by these drugs each month
> I use 40,000 are killed each year by these drugs and others use 500,000. Please do not accuse me falsely of exaggerating, for my number is based on the low end of the number of deaths each month from drugs.
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Data on causes of death in the U.S. is tracked by the CDC and linked here:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
If psychiatric medication killed 40,000 to 500,000 people per year, it would be a leading cause of death. For comparison, among the top causes of death, cancer (#2) kills 590,000 and suicide (#10) kills 42,000. The smallest among the top 15 is pneumonitis, which kills 19,000. Psychiatric medication does not appear in the list at all. Thus it is not possible that psychiatric medication kills 40,000 to 500,000 per year.
In fact, there is no class of medications listed as a leading cause of death. It is all illnesses, accidents, and suicide.
This is data from 2014:
... All causes 2,626,418 100.0 823.7
1 Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51) 614,348 23.4 192.7
2 Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97) 591,699 22.5 185.6
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases (J40-J47) 147,101 5.6 46.1
4 Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59,Y85-Y86) 136,053 5.2 42.7
5 Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) 133,103 5.1 41.7
6 Alzheimer's disease (G30) 93,541 3.6 29.3
7 Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14) 76,488 2.9 24.0
8 Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18) 55,227 2.1 17.3
9 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis (N00-N07,N17-N19,N25-N27) 48,146 1.8 15.1
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide) (*U03,X60-X84,Y87.0) 42,773 1.6 13.4
11 Septicemia (A40-A41) 38,940 1.5 12.2
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (K70,K73-K74) 38,170 1.5 12.0
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease (I10,I12,I15) 30,221 1.2 9.5
14 Parkinson's disease (G20-G21) 26,150 1.0 8.2
15 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids (J69) 18,792 0.7 5.9
... All other causes (residual) 535,666 20.4 168.0

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Re: Number of deaths by psychiatric medication » Lou PIlder Tabitha 7/25/16
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Lou's reply-add up the deaths » Tabitha Lou PIlder 7/27/16
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