[girvo]

Heroin + other drugs combined are responsible for a high percentage of all drug related deaths. You can make the argument that there's not much difference, because people are dumb, and I'd probably agree with you though.

[digi_owl]

Best i recall, the major reason for heroin deaths are that people overdose.

This either because they don't know the purity of the substance, or they have tried to get clean on their own and are relapsing.

The latter is particularly insidious, as the person will set up the dosage based on habit while their body has lost its resistance to the drug.