What does the following chart tell you???: That there is a high correlation between drug use and HIV/AIDs infection. Which isn't surprising- people who use illegal drugs are also likely to engage in other risky behavior, such as promiscuous and unsafe homosexual sex. Illegal drug use lowers inhibition and impairs judgment. Some of the drugs listed, such as heroin, are also injected, so there's also the issue of shared needles.
You are making the classic mistake of confusing correlation with causation. The drug use doesn't directly cause HIV/AIDS- it's the risky activities that high people engage in that leads to infection. You're acting like you've made some novel discovery, but all your evidence shows is that drug users tend to engage in other risky behavior.
==That there is a high correlation between drug use and HIV/AIDs infection.
Agreed.
==You are making the classic mistake of confusing correlation with causation.
That is of course possible. But remember, confusing correlation with causation is a two-way street. Let's superimpose drug use and HIV infection over the AIDS statistics and see which one provides a better explanation for what causes of AIDS. Notice that the rate of HIV infection is flatlined, whereas the drug epidemic in the US and Europe has a near perfect correlation with the rise of AIDS cases :
==The drug use doesn't directly cause HIV/AIDS- it's the risky activities that high people engage in that leads to infection.
I don't see how you can say that when it is a demonstrable fact that the drugs that IV drug addicts and fast-lane homosexuals use cause AIDS defining diseases without the presence of HIV.