About 125 Million of Americans Know Someone Who Died of Drug Overdose; 13 Percent Say Deaths Have Disrupted Their Lives. Really!

How many million Americans know of someone who is strictly abstinent of dangerous drugs? Maybe as many or more? What is the point?

Taking illegal drugs is way too much celebrated and encouraged by media, influencers etc.! The risks and dangers are deliberately downplayed!

"More than 40 percent of Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose and about one-third of those individuals say their lives were disrupted by the death, according to a new RAND study. ...

More than 109,000 people died from a drug overdose in 2022, placing the national total since 2000 at more than 1.1 million overdose deaths. ..."

More Than 40 Percent of Americans Know Someone Who Died of Drug Overdose; 13 Percent Say Deaths Have Disrupted Their Lives | RAND