Millions of people have died because the government has banned certain drugs. Whereas the number of people who have died because of a drug not being banned is zero. It seems like a clear tradeoff to me.
I'm sure this is a debatable 'fact'/statistic.
If you want to cut down the number of people taking dangerous drugs, ban doctors from prescribing non FDA-approved drugs and ban companies from marketing them. However, I have only contempt for people who want to put their fellow citizens in jail for making their own medical decisions.