Resumen de Drug detectives.
The article discusses drug poisoning in the U.S. and describes initiatives to reduce it from health professionals, legislators, and physicians. Topics include the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, designer drugs, the abuse of prescription narcotics, and difficulties in diagnosing drug poisoning during medical emergencies. The toxicologist Mark B. Mycyk and the medical director of the Oregon Poison Center Jane Horowitz are quoted. A graph is included of an increase in U.S. drug poisoning deaths from 2000 to 2008.
