Drugs my brother had in him at the end.....

[loyalsister]

10. That's a good point

But, alcohol deaths are on the rise.

nearly 31,000 people died by alcohol in 2014, up from 22,000 in 2006. That means more people died to alcohol in 2014 than the nearly 29,000 who died from opioid — including heroin — overdoses, but fewer than the nearly 34,000 who died to gun violence or car crashes that same year.

The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic could have made alcohol deadlier. When taken together, alcohol and opioids interact to intensify each other and make each other more dangerous. So it's possible that alcohol deaths rose as more people used — and died from — opioids throughout the 2000s, and many of those deaths were counted as alcohol-induced deaths in the CDC data.

Another factor could be greater use of the anti-anxiety medication, benzodiazepine. About one-third of opioid deaths now involve benzos like Xanax, and these drugs were prescribed more and more throughout the 2000s. Since benzos can intensify alcohol's effects, it's possible they helped cause more alcohol-induced deaths in the same way opioids might have. http://www.vox.com/2015/12/28/10674494/alcohol-deaths-rising

One thing that would make it even worse would be if it were all readily available in retail establishments. Since alcohol toxicity and Tylenol overdose have liver damage in common, I wonder what the chances are that it would be more fatal for someone whose liver was already damaged from alcohol abuse?