That's unusual but not impossible. Alcohol related deaths in 2020 were around 75 per million people. All opiates together (legal and illegal) caused around 24 deaths per million.
The odds are slightly different if you're a Generation X member, they can't hold their drugs and have consistently had a higher mortality rate than older or younger cohorts.
But in general someones three more times likely to be killed by alcohol than any opiate. Cannabis is around 1/40th that of opiates, it's so small it is less than 1 per million and drops off the bottom of the scale.
ITM this is a classic example of figures being misleading due to lack of context. What does
"Alcohol related deaths in 2020 were around 75 per million people" mean? I presume it means that for every million deaths (globally) in 2020, 75 were alcohol related. It could also mean that for every million persons who drank alcohol in 2020 75 died of causes related to drinking alcohol, but it's unlikely to mean that - however that would be a more revealing statistic.
Crucially, it doesn't say how many people drank alcohol in that same period and didn't die, or died but of conditions not relating to alcohol. Alcoholic drink is consumed, nay, enjoyed, in almost every country by a majority of the adult population. Opiates (illegal, I'm not concerned with legally taken drugs that are illegal without prescription) are taken by a minority, so I'd like to see the other side of the coin to your opiates
"caused around 24 deaths per million" figure, i.e. how many people took opiates and didn't die.
Quoting the negligible number of deaths from cannabis is also misleading. It's well known that cannabis is not lethal even in huge quantities, so in quoting the low number of deaths it is as if you are trying to make cannabis look like a harmless wonder drug and panacea. Whether we should be concerned about the deaths of drug takers is another matter - them having deliberately broken the law and all. The death of the drug taker is not the issue with cannabis - it is what the cannabis user does to others that is the problem - it leads to utterly depraved behaviour and extraordinary violence. Read some of the news reports on this site:
Ross Grainger – Attacker Smoked Cannabis: suicide and psychopathic violence in the UK and Ireland
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug. I've not known any extreme cases of psychosis such as those mentioned on Ross Grainger's site, but I come across, every day, the mental damage caused by cannabis. It's takers are usually vacant and gormless when high; shifty and restless when not. Encountering someone stoned on cannabis in the street is like being in one of those zombie films. Cannabis may not cause actual death but it certainly causes brain death.
