• Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I wonder if poisoning counts stuff like overdose/alcohol poisoning because that one seems strange

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      11 hours ago

      25-44 Just out here drinking random potions that turn out to be poisoned

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      Source is a bit outdated now, 2018 (didn’t realize when I posted that), but it’s primarily from drugs apparently. Both prescription and non-prescription.

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        A bit sad that they didn’t try to distinguish between accidents and suicide. But that’s probably hard to know in most cases.

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        A drug overdose is termed as a posioning in these kinds of formats/contexts, for whatever reason.

        The vast majority of these ‘poisonings’ are not like… snake bites, food poisoning, radiation poisoning, cyanide… they are overdoses of some kind, meth, fentanyl, prescription drugs, alcohol, etc.

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            1 day ago

            Hah!

            I was going to post Alice Cooper’s “Posion” as a joke response, but then I watched the music video, and its basically a 45 year old describing how he can barely resist deflowering an 18 yo.

            So… yeah.

            I’m going with ‘rape culture’ was more the norm in the 90s.

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              14 hours ago

              I think I’ve heard from several people on lemmy now that most of the ‘classic rock’ musicians had pretty horrible attitudes towards children, ala what you’re now used to with republicans.