Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by trobertson on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:20PM
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> Hard drugs are not pot or alcohol
In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined:
CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year according to data between 2015 and 2019
CDC [1]: All other drugs caused 100,000 deaths in the twelve month ending in April 2021
There's a lot of arguments to be made as to why (different legal status, different cultural norms around use, etc.) but the fact is that, currently, alcohol use is more lethal than all other drug use combined.
Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by max51 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:36PM
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The number of people dying from jumping off the empire state building is orders of magnitude less than the ones you quoted... that doesn't mean you have good odds of surviving the jump or that it's a good idea to build a jumping ramp.
In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined:
CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year according to data between 2015 and 2019
CDC [1]: All other drugs caused 100,000 deaths in the twelve month ending in April 2021
There's a lot of arguments to be made as to why (different legal status, different cultural norms around use, etc.) but the fact is that, currently, alcohol use is more lethal than all other drug use combined.
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[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...