Chapter 2's Figure 4 is a bar chart showing the percentage of all reported poisoning deaths in 1995 by drug class identified as alcohol related, all psychoactives, all drugs, and all substances. It shows that 6.1 percent of poisoning deaths were alcohol related, 46 percent were related to psychoactives, 81 percent were drug related, and 100 percent were related to some substance.

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