Yes, I've come and talked about opiates, but they're not the only drugs that kill people. You're absolutely right. As I said, the other drugs are more likely to be seen in isolation in incidents of intentional ingestion, but not absolutely. One of the difficulties is that people with chronic pain and people who access opiates often have other comorbidities. They may have mental health issues. They may have medical issues for which they are also prescribed other medications that are equally dangerous and in combination with opiates, even when individual levels are not fatal, the combined toxicity can be fatal. Most often these people are dying of what we call mixed drug toxicity, either opiate and alcohol, or opiate and psychoactive drugs plus or minus alcohol.
On February 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.