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by notfed 648 days ago
> Alcohol is...the safest [psychoactive drug]

Yeah, no. According to CDC data, more than 150,000 people die from excessive alcohol consumption per year [1], which is about how many people died of heroin overdoses in the past 20 years [2].

By and large, the labels "safe" or "dangerous" are subjective and highly cultural, at least when it comes to substances.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/facts-stats/index.html

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/heroin.html

2 comments

> According to CDC data, more than 150,000 people die from excessive alcohol consumption per year [1], which is about how many people died of heroin overdoses in the past 20 years [2]

Easy, everyone drinks, almost nobody shoots up. There you go, explained.

Could you normalise that data? Deaths per user?