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Drug related deaths often attract a great deal of political and media attention. Statistics on drug related deaths, along with anecdotes from individual cases, are often used to illustrate the harm drugs can cause and to defend prohibitionist policies.
Although these statistics can be used to provide one indication about how harmful drugs are, it is an overly simplistic indicator for this purpose. Most drug related harm is non-fatal, and drug related deaths are not proof that a certain drug is inherently harmful, since harm to an individual is determined by how the drug used (dose, frequency, poly drug use, method of use, etc)
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