Addiction- Drug Related Deaths and Statistics?

Published March 22, 2014

Question by Buddy: addiction- drug related deaths and statistics?
I need some info or basic statistics on drug related overdoses and deaths in the last few years. Arizona would be nice, but I am willing to take any info on other states.
Also, if you have a personal story you’d like to share, I’m more than open to that.
I am not using any of this information for research, I am simply trying to stop using drugs and I need some statistics or stories that will smack some sense into me- most people don’t share that sort of thing at meetings.
Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by Crystal
Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows:

•Tobacco kills about 400,000
•Alcohol kills about 80,000
•Workplace accidents kill 60,000
•Automobiles kill 40,000
•Cocaine kills about 2,500
•Heroin kills about 2,000
•Aspirin kills about 2,000
•Marijuana kills 0
There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history.

All illegal drugs combined kill under 20,000 per year, or a small percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco.

Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last one hundred years.

Drug Prisoners

•1,360,000 Drug Prisoners in America
•1.7 million Americans are incarcerated in prisons or jails, more per capita than any other nation.
•Nearly 80% of all prisoners in America are for drug related offenses.
•Ten million people have been arrested for marijuana since 1965.

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