Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year. CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines. "The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which gathered and analyzed the data. In 2010, the CDC reported, there were 38,329 drug overdose deaths nationwide. Medicines, mostly prescription drugs, were involved in nearly 60 percent of overdose deaths that year, overshadowing deaths from illicit narcotics. The report appears in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. It details which drugs were at play in most of the fatalities. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs — which include OxyContin and Vicodin — were the biggest problem, contributing to 3 out of 4 medication overdose deaths.
The study's findings are no surprise, he added. Online: War on drugs a trillion-dollar failure. Richard Branson: Prohibition caused damage in the same way the war on drugs has doneBranson says if one of his companies is failing, he doesn't continue with failed strategiesU.S. has the most prisoners in the world, he says, 500,000 of them for drug violationsBranson: We need alternatives to jail that focus on education, health, taxation, regulation Editor's note: Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group, with global branded revenues of $21 billion, and a member of the Global Drug Commission.
Sir Richard was knighted in 1999 for his services to entrepreneurship. Watch today for Branson's interview with CNN/US' Erin Burnett Out Front at 7pm ET and tomorrow (12/7) with CNN International's Connect the World program at 4pm ET (CNN) -- In 1925, H. L. This week marks the 79th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933, but Mencken's plea could easily apply to today's global policy on drugs. News: Pot smokers enter legal limbo in Washington, Colorado Richard Branson. Brad Pitt blasts US War on Drugs as 'charade'
HSBC: Flagship Bank Of Britain’s Dope, Inc | Executive Intelligence Review. July 23—It should come as no surprise that British banking giant HSBC was caught laundering money for drug cartels and terrorist groups. HSBC, as we shall show, is the kingpin bank of the global drug trade, a bank which, since its founding in 1865, has been devoted to financing drug crops and laundering the proceeds.
HSBC is, in fact, one of the key controlling institutions of the global illicit drug cartel we call Dope, Inc. If you think that is an outlandish claim, consider the fact that EIR, through its book Dope, Inc., and in its affilicated War on Drugs magazine, published in the early 1980s by the National Anti-Drug Coalition, have made this charge for over 30 years, and have never been sued or challenged by the bank.
For years, when banks have been caught laundering drug money, they have claimed that they did not know, that they were but victims of sneaky drug dealers and a few corrupt employees. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Bank of Opium Invading America. Ben Swann: What The Media Isn't Telling You About The Drug War.