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by canarypilot 1889 days ago
The chart shows a "harm score", made up of 16 criteria, not total deaths. I haven't pulled the full article for what the 16 criteria were, but a little more detail is in the abstract on the Lancet where it was originally published https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... . A contemporaneous article from the BBC describes more of the methodology https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210 A choice quote: "The study involved 16 criteria, including a drug's affects on users' physical and mental health, social harms including crime, "family adversities" and environmental damage, economic costs and "international damage".
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Fair enough. Thanks. Thought I might have been wrong about that.