>I'm curious why the rate of increase is like 2x for alcohol as compared to drugs. As a layman, I'd perhaps naively assume... As a naive layman I think I've re

>I'm curious why the rate of increase is like 2x for alcohol as compared to drugs. As a layman, I'd perhaps naively assume... As a naive layman I think I've realized my mistake. In absolute terms, drug deaths are much higher but alcohol deaths have seen larger percentage increase, but in absolute terms the relative number of deaths makes sense (to me anyways).