3,000 deaths from September 11th 2001.

33,000 from opioid overdoses in 2015 [1].

That's like 11 9/11's every year. I'm not afraid of terrorists. I am worried if I take opioids after a root canal I'll become a drug addict [2].

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/

[2] - https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/with-a-10-day-supply...

Opioids (like driving) have some benefit to wider society. Terrorist attacks don't.

I agree they are not identical situations.

Driving is not a good analogy either. A 2 week prescription gives you a 25% chance of becoming an addict. That is Russian roulette odds.

Driving everyday all year has about a 1 in 10,000 chance of death.

Driving is a necessity in most places. Opioids are not.

The vast majority of the global death toll attributed to terrorism in the article is in anarchic countries plagued by (civil) war -- Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria.