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    1. SadBigCat on

      This is interesting because I would say that many of countries with high death rates have more restrictions on alcohol while the population in the south have easier access to weed and cocaine.

    2. UndulatingHedgehog on

      2019 is six years ago. Would be interesting to see the numbers for 2023 or 2024.

    3. Aggressive_Sport_635 on

      Portugal is such an interesting case for why we should just legalize and regulate drugs.

    4. NoctisScriptor on

      in portugal isn’t higher because people are too poor to be able to afford an overdose

    5. ii_always_wrong_ii on

      Lol, Bulgaria only has one, coz we don’t have that many people and are forced to make our own stuff coz if prices lol

    6. This is a weird map to see. Countries like Portugal, Poland and Turkey are at same low rates but each probably for very different reasons.

      Also makes me wonder how all the countries determine a death as an overdose and if some of the differences come from how the stats are gathered.

    7. Choice_One5719 on

      I live in Scotland, there is a lot of drugs, however, I believe we report our statistics slightly different to other parts of UK? Happy to be corrected if wrong

    8. No_Job_9999 on

      half the spanish rate is actually italians addicts dying here.

    9. The Netherlands: decades of liberal drug policy, only one death.

    10. Garry-Love on

      The only reason it’s not higher in Ireland is because our drugs are watered down shite. 

    11. 9.2? We got to pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!

      Can’t let some Baltic country take our crown!

    12. Scotland seems to have become an independent nation overnight./s
      Until a court case in 2023, drugs policy was wholly reserved to the Westminster government and they did not allow any policies that could mitigate drug deaths. It is still a reserved power to the UK government, especially the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. However the court case has allowed the Scottish government to tinker round the edges of legislation.
      Since then the Scottish government has been working to bring in Drug consumption rooms. The first drug consumption rooms in Scotland were opened this year. Such areas have been shown, in other jurisdictions, to reduce deaths. It is too early to say if they are working in Scotland.

    13. Talkycoder on

      If you took Glasgow off the map, then Scotland would probably be closer to England. Heroin capital of Europe.

    14. needmorelego on

      Holland is the most surprising on this map. Culturally and geographically you would expect the overdose rate to be much higher than it is. And their market must be flooded with drugs too, because (geography) of the port. So they must be doing something right there!

    15. Turkey’s data seems off, or is it the large population thats causing it?

    16. reasonable-99percent on

      The rule is… poorer and more sourhern the better!

    17. BalticsFox on

      Data is old but based on this old data should we copy Montenegro’s approach then?

    18. Several-Western6392 on

      And in Russia really? I thought Putin is gonna put ya in torture wheel

    19. photos__fan on

      I think Glasgow is doing some pretty heavy lifting there

    20. Previous-Piglet4353 on

      Meanwhile, in Canada, in particularly BC:

      *”Currently, the annualized rate of death in 2024 (***41 per 100,000 persons***) is less than the annual rates in any of the previous three years (2021-2023).*” from the 2024 Unregulated Drug Deaths summary report, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/statistical/augsept2024_2_unregulated_drug_pdf_of_dashboard.pdf.

      9.8 or 9.2 honestly doesn’t sound bad by comparison, but I would rather it be 0 to spare us all the misery of this.

    21. EduardBon on

      Interesting. The most happy countries have more overdose death rates.

    22. Critical_Walk on

      These numbers lie. UN has established that dark, freezing countries with 9 months of winter and 3 months of autoumn are the happiest !

    23. Portugal, Netherlands and Norway have very relaxed drug laws in Europe, but only the former two have some of the lowest overdose death rates. Anyone know why Norway’s is so high, comparable to other Nordic countries with much tighter drug laws?

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