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That doesn't show anything. That merely shows the % of people of different ages who die of drug overdoses. That could be from a sample of 100, 1000 or 10,000
Actually, that chart shows # of deaths per 100,000. So for every 100,000 people aged 45-54, a whopping 25 people die. However what is missing is the time frame. Is this an annual death rate, a daily death rate, hourly death rate? We cannot tell from this graph.
If this is an daily death rate, then 91.8 people die from drugs per 600,000. (I know i am messing up by combining the age groups, I am assuming that all age groups have equal numbers of people in them, however the census data I found doesn't split the age groups up the same way as this graph) according to the 2010 census data, there were 308,745,538 people in the US. Now if we take the death rate of 91.8 deaths per 600,000 people and multiply it by the number of people, we will then get the daily deaths.
(91.8/600,000)*308,745,538=47238
So if this rate were a daily rate, worst case scenario (unless you want to make it an hourly death rate), you have just over 47,000 deaths per day from drugs. A far cry from the millions that EJ claimed.