Friday, September 19, 2025

Drug-induced Deaths in Europe

I'm really surprised about the Scandinavian countries:
 

US: "The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths increased from 8.2 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2002 to 32.6 in 2022." (CDC)

* I assume this doesn't include deaths from alcohol, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't have an original link for the figure.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's dark and cold for a long time up north. Look at how few deaths there are where the sun shines.

Best,

D

Anonymous said...

I found a quite different picture here:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-drug-use

David Appell said...

That's an interesting link, thanks. I wonder if they are using the word "drug" differently. For example, does it include alcohol? Probably should....