Twenty three percent of [people in prison], including 30% of women and 22% of men, reported a history of having “overdosed or become unconscious as a result of taking drugs.”
More than 12,000 people have died this year in Mexico’s drug war, officials said Thursday, making it the deadliest year since President Felipe Calderon launched a government crackdown against traffickers in 2006.
The federal attorney general’s office said 12,456 people were killed through Nov. 30.
The overall death toll since the launch of the drug war stands at 30,196, according to figures given to reporters during a year-end breakfast session with Atty. Gen. Arturo Chavez Chavez.
More than 12,000 killed in Mexican drug war this year, officials say (via Peter)
One study found that 21 percent of 25,000 men autopsied in Siberia between 1990 and 2004 whose deaths were attributed to circulatory diseases had lethal or near-lethal ethanol concentrations in their blood.
