Tough on Drugs

New data from UF and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show that since 2000 cocaine has increasingly been cited as the cause of death in coroner's reports, and that the number of cocaine deaths per 100,000 people in the state has nearly doubled in the past five years, from 150 in 2000 to nearly 300 in 2005.

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...164327.htm

I wonder if the testing and technology has just gotten better rather than the use of cocaine becoming higher. I also wonder how many of these deaths were indirectly caused by cocaine. Such as cocaine causing someone to be impaired while driving and then getting into a car accident. I think the study has too many variables that need to be interpretted.