This is meaningless data without accompanying data on deaths from unintentional NON-prescription drug overdoses *including alcohol*. I suspect the latter are much lower in Utah, due the Mormon culture and its influence on availability of recreational drugs *especially alcohol* (and really, this should include “overdoses” of alcohol that cause people to get themselves into fatal vehicle accidents, fall off balconies to their deaths, etc). Let’s see a state-by-state comparison of deaths from unintentional overdoses of ALL drugs *including alcohol*, before announcing any negative conclusions about Utah or Mormon culture. It’s not any better for a young adult to die of alcohol poisoning than to die of an oxycodone overdose — dead is dead.
Indeed.
My high school senior says with 50 bucks and half an hour she knows how to get anything from pot to heroin, ecstasy to meth.
How we get any of them to 25 alive is a miracle.