Muscle relaxers, certain types of steroids, GHB, NO2, and even cocaine are all technically part of that list.
Your not wrong, but it's not that super clear cut either.
Your not wrong, but it's not that super clear cut either.
Presumably this is strategic to hide whatever issue is going on with the "medical drugs" and inflate the apparent problem with "DARE drugs".
X42 governs accidental narcotic poisoning, but only in cases where the drug is specified, and isn't necessarily applied for prescription opioids. The list above for X44 is the 'including' list of suggestions, but the category includes any death from "unspecified drugs". And contributing causes of death are handled under a separate system making it possible to list more drugs in more detail, so the CDC says that both prescription and illicit opioid deaths can crop up under X44.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pdo_guide_to_icd-9-cm_a...