overdoses

The irony is that paracetamol overdoses are far harder to treat and far more likely to lead to death or severe long term damage than opioid overdoses...

Look in the news for evidence: how many deaths related to meth overdoses, vs caffeine overdoses.

Second, you say below in reference to heroin being dangerous how many people die of overdoses every year.

Also: even though overdoses are so preventable, calling for help usually causes police to arrest you anyway.

Difficulty establishing purity is one issue, but the overdoses happen just as often with prescription pain pills with predictable strength.

Additional harms like risk of violence or overdoses due to impurities are secondary at best.

His crime was manufacturing LSD, which has no recorded overdoses, is not addictive, and reports of it harming users are extremely rare.

Opiates are rather tame as far as side effects go, and avoiding overdoses isn't terrifically hard if you have the right stuff.

Look at all the deaths due to overdoses of prescription opiates.

Illicit drugs are the minority of overdoses[1], so I don't see how your logic follows.

Some of the suggestions were insulin or potassium overdoses.

I'd wager that few overdoses are from first-time users, so the overdoser has some information about their own previous dosages at the very least.

For example, in 2013, of around ~200 deaths "induced by drugs", only 22 were actually considered overdoses.

They'd rather that some people died from paracetamol overdoses than be allowed to live as "sinners".

This was done to cut the number of (accidental or intentional) overdoses, and is credited with having saved hundreds of lives despite obviously being trivial to "work around" by going to multiple stores.

Overdoses are time critical, especially as not every overdosed guy gets noticed in time.

Overdoses can be very dynamic and dangerous scenes, and EMS will approach carefully.

Overdoses would certainly be reduced by a large extent by legalization.