The majority of people dying from drugs die from medical consequences of the drugs and being violently. There is no FDA regulation and they can contain anything. The druggie is relying on blind faith that everyone that was involved in the manufacture and cutting of the drugs has prepared a 'safe' product. And even when the drug is safe, there are things that can happen along with aids and hepatitis from needle sharing and an unsafe life style. There was a distant relative in my family that did OD somewhere in NYC. Some of these deaths can be blamed on the dealer if the dealer decides to get rid of a customer by poison in the product or doing other things to the dose for what is being sold.
At least if some federal agency like the FDA was involved in certifying what was sold, many lives would be saved from 'bad' drugs.
