3 million overdosing? No way. You essentially have access to any drug you want now, if you want it bad enough, and there are not that many people who OD. As for the need for painkillers, I am one of those who has medical problems and sometimes I need the good stuff just to function. So i wish all the anti-drug people could be in the same situation - oxicodone worked great but I doubt I could get any now. 20 tablets got me through 6 months, so it isn't like I'm some user, just the WOT has negative consequences on many levels.
oooops, that would be WOD not the WOT, sorry.
I said my number was a WAG...Wild Arsed Guess...
I tried to guess the percentage of people I know who do and do not do drugs.
At church, smalll, about 50 people, I would not name a druggy among them.
At work, a few I could guess.
In the comedy scene, (do stand up), I would guess a majority abuse drug, at least pot.
In my immediate family, I know a super majority do illegal drugs.
Again, I do not abuse, nor have I ever abused drugs. I saw as a child what drug abuse does to a family.
Often, as a young child, I wished my brothers would OD because they were destroying my family. Any finances my mom saved were wasted in bail payments. Much of anything of value we had was "stolen" (my brothers claimed it was stolen, but I suspect they sold it for drug money).