How many people die from drugs each year?

Answer 1

Answer:This question is almost impossible to answer. The premises to be used have to be carefully identified and data has to be available on:

• How many deaths occur among drug users (which requires that everybody 'fess up')
• How is the data authenticated and double dipping eliminated. How is false data from "groups with a message" eliminated
• Are medical mistakes (by doctors) in or out
• What constitutes a drug - are caffeine, insulin in or out
• Are complications from dirty equipment, not the drugs, in or out
  
• How are medical drug users included or excluded (e.g. cannabis for cancer patients)
• Are deaths of reformed drug users in or out
  
• How many of these deaths are due strictly to the drugs (eliminate tobacco users, auto crashes, deaths from poor judgment, old age, poor health in general)
• Figure out how to identify deaths with drugs as a contributory but not prime factor and how to count them in or exclude them
• Figure out what to do with deaths of people who were killed by drug users either on purpose or accidentally and whether the drug was a cause or just incidental
• Are deaths from alcohol and smoking (legal drugs) to be counted?
• Are deaths from medically assisted euthanasia to be counted?

The implication is that good data for this type of statistic is unobtainable and existing results are not meaningful. The "Pro" forces can drive the number down to zero and the "Anti" forces can include every death that has ever occurred.

Answer 2

In the world total anywhere between 2-5 million people die per year from drugs directly or indirectly, there are people that are killed due to drugs because they were killed for their money to buy drugs, they were killed from over dose, they were killed because someone else was driving a vehicle and caused another vehicle full of people to die. The question is generic so you will get a generic answer.

To adequately answer this question data has to be available on:

• How many deaths occur among drug users (which requires that everybody 'fess up)
• How is the data authenticated and double dipping eliminated. How is false data from "groups with a message" eliminated
• Are medical mistakes (by doctors, nurses, EMTs) in or out
• What constitutes a drug - are things like caffeine, insulin in or out
• Are complications from dirty equipment, not the drugs, in or out
• How are medical drug users included or excluded (e.g. cannabis for cancer patients)
• Are deaths of reformed drug users in or out
• How many of these deaths are due strictly to the drugs (eliminate tobacco users, auto crashes, deaths from poor judgement, old age, poor health in general)
• Figure out how to identify deaths with drugs as a contributory factor and how to count them in or exclude them
• Figure out what to do with deaths of people who were killed by drug users either on purpose or accidentally and whether the drug was a cause or just incidental
• Are deaths from alcohol and smoking to be counted?
• Are deaths from medically assisted euthanasia to be counted?

The implication is that good data for this type of statistic is unobtainable and existing results are not meaningful. The "Pro" forces can drive the number down to zero and the "Anti" forces can include every death that has ever occurred.

Answer 3

In the world total anywhere between 2-5 million people die per year from drugs directly or indirectly, there are people that are killed due to drugs because they were killed for their money to buy drugs, they were killed from over dose, they were killed because someone else was driving a vehicle and caused another vehicle full of people to die.

Answer 4

2 to 5 million people die each year because of drugs

Answer 5

200,000 a year die from drugs in a year, and 19,000 die from illegal drug use in a year

Answer 6

I have heard that on average 3000 people die everyday from smoking related diseases.