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So your class had a 1% death rate due to prescription opioids. Why do you suppose it was so far out of proportion to the general population? drugabuse.gov says prescription opioids accounted for around 15,000 deaths in 2017 [1], so 12 in a single high school graduating class is either a massive unexplained spike in the data, or something you made up.

1: https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/over...

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I'm not who you're replying to, but don't you think that given we know pill mills exist, it's likely the data is actually highly location specific? I.E., a city with one is more likely to have lots of ODs compared to the national average? Have you taken a statistic course? At this point I'm not sure what you're objecting to anymore.

A 1% death rate due to prescription opioids in a high-school age population sounds utterly unprecedented.

If true, it's interesting, and genuinely disturbing. I'd like to learn more about how something like that can happen at that scale.

If not true, it belongs on some other site where people don't care about what's true and not true.

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