The Perils of Fair-Weather Cocaine
The higher the temp, the higher the death rate. As spring approaches, cocaine users might take note of further evidence of a connection between high ambient air temperatures and accidental overdoses. A study published recently in the journal Addiction used mortality data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City from 1990 to 2006 to determine the frequency of cocaine-related overdoses (itself an enterprise fraught with uncertainty and argument over listed causes of death).
