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Japan could just be an outlier.

• 54hgfhjhg 12y ago
  Not exactly. There's also Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Malaysia, China (all countries with extremely strict drug laws and far lower drug related death rates than Portugal)
  • smoe 12y ago
    According to this list, Colombia has fewer drug related deaths than any of the countries you mentioned, Sierra Leone about the same as Japan and the Netherlands is below Saudi Arabia. I can't find the source of this list or any comparable ranking. But except for some countries, this lists seems completely random to me or is using not comparable numbers from each countries in/official statistics
  • pessimizer 12y ago
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/executions-hit-new-high-in-chinas-drugs-war-712544.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/executions-hit-... This is about 72 people being executed in a single week in China for drug offenses. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/saudi-beheads-four-men-smuggling-drugs-2014818184317907443.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/saudi-behea... The question is whether shooting, beheading, or letting people die in prison for selling or doing drugs counts as a drug death. http://www.ihra.net/files/2010/07/09/IHRA_DeathPenaltyReport_Web.pdf http://www.ihra.net/files/2010/07/09/IHRA_DeathPenaltyReport...
• malandrew 12y ago
  Exactly, cultural characteristics matter. Japan is a collectivistic culture with a high trust of authority. I would imagine that individualistic cultures with low trust of authority are likely to experience greater drug use.