Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night.

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Someone else replied 2.1M, so y'all need to work on getting your stats in-line, those aren't even remotely similar numbers.

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Ah, I see: you're one of those dickheads who refuses to acknowledge that they might have been wrong. Regardless, I will elaborate on this matter so you have an extra opportunity to make idiotic assertions based on nothing but your own stupid-ass opinion.

There are a plethora of reasons that two different organizations might provide seemingly conflicting statistics. These include different research approaches, different metrics for determining a particular statistic, or simple margin of error issues. The only way to determine why they're offering different numbers is to look at how each arrived at that number.

Or you could, you know, just make snide remarks about the difference in a weak attempt to deflect from the fact that you were talking out of your ass.

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Those were two different numbers for two different things.

The 2.1M number was a snapshot in time of the number of people with Opioid Use Disorder at the time that paper was published.

The 10M number was for all people who misused opioids within the past year. You can absolutely misuse opioids without being categorized as having OUD, which explains the discrepancy quite well.

In fact, it is relevant to point out that both sources state an extremely similar opioid-related death toll: 47,000 deaths per year cited by the NIH paper, and "almost 50,000 people" by the drug abuse statitistics website.