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It was hard to miss the flurry of activity when road toll figures came out this week showing that 292 Victorians died on the state's roads in 2016. But another figure seems to slip beneath the radar every year. It's the number of people who die of drug overdoses. About 1400 people in Australia die of an overdose every year – four a day. In 2015, 420 Victorians died of an overdose. There were 252 road deaths in the same year.