The seven deadly drugs in Oklahoma have claimed more lives than at anytime in the last decade, new figures show.
Most abused drugs — five State prescription drugs and road — two drugs killed 577 residents in 2009, according to the latest autopsy records available. A total of 550 people died of overdose of these drugs from the year before.
"We are on the verge of having really a crisis in Oklahoma," said Darrell Weaver, Director of the State Bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs control.
Tramadol was the assassin, with 130 dead, up from 113 in 2008.
"It continues to grow each year compared to the previous year," Bureau spokeswoman said Mark Woodward.
Cocaine deaths fell to 37 50 in 2009, the year before.
Woodward, said that the drop happened around the time "shake and bake" meth labs began surfacing in Oklahoma. Said that some cocaine users may have access to once you have the new recipe cooking meth. Deaths caused by drug overdose to methamphetamine Street rose to 61 from 27 in 2009, the year before.
A drop of noteworthy happened with another drug popularly abused, methadone, which is used to treat pain and wean heroin addicts.
"Two years ago, methadone deaths were skyrocketing," Weaver said.
In fact, methadone held the position of the beginning of Oklahoma's top killer in 2002. The deaths fell from 110 in 2008 to 84 in 2009.
Weaver accredits the decline of many things. The Bureau conducted a seminar statewide Ardmore and other training programs about methadone. Spurred on by the efforts of Carol Bolding, whose son 29 years, Brian, died of toxicity of methadone after taking a pill and Xanax methadone, State legislators passed a law requiring all methadone prescribers, use prescription monitoring database to make sure patients are not "doctor shopping" or go to the doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions for methadone.
Other deaths from overdoses in 2009: painkillers Oxycodone, 117; morphine, 74; and fentanyl, 74.
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