Care to balance out the statistics of the alcohol deaths with the number of people in the United States who use alcohol? I did a quick search and came up with t

Care to balance out the statistics of the alcohol deaths with the number of people in the United States who use alcohol? I did a quick search and came up with this via the NIH: In 2013, 86.8 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.4 percent reported that they drank in the past month... In 2013, 24.6 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month ...and, via the 2010 US Census, there are 193,000,000 people between the ages of 18 and 64. So, if we consider the math, many, many more people consume alcohol than heroin, and as such, 88,000 is a much smaller "fatal problem" than you frame it. So, not as widespread as alcoholism, but much more fatal for those affected. I stand by my assertion that there's no need to "over-state" the heroin problem in the US.