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Percentage of fatalities:
22,134 / 216,659,462 * 100 = 0.0102 % fatality percentage per prescription drug user user.
14,000 / 29,085,707 * 100 = 0.0481 % fatality percentage per illegal drug use.
Conclusion: Prescription drugs are more than 4 times as safe as illicit ones.
That's a big generalization. It just means less people die from prescription drugs but says nothing about the actual drugs itself. The data ignores quantity and purity, and I know that this is part of your argument but, for example, people could be using exactly the same drugs as the prescription drugs but in higher doses and in unsafe settings and die as a result. A lot of these illegal drugs are most likely legal prescriptions drugs obtained by illegal means.