Thanks for sharing. It is a good reminder.
This is not the typical use of the term mortality rate, which is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
It would make no sense to work out the infant mortality rate by dividing infant deaths by the total size of the population, and here this seems more like an attempt to seek publicity, but at the cost of downplaying opioid deaths which have surged, compared to alcohol-related deaths which have grown, but not as much. More importantly, opioids are much more deadly, so the mortality rate as a share of the consuming population is much higher.
Just another biased study/article to excuse drug use making apple/orange comparisons.
Seems like it is anti drug, since alcohol is a recreational drug (although legal for many people).
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