Dying from an "opioid overdose" when you have some tolerance is an over-exacerbated myth pushed by people in power.
It's only when other CNS depressants are combined should you be worried. Or if you're doing street opiates (cause they can be cut with fentanyl).
I've been an opioid addict for almost 15 years. Tramadol, heroin, hydrocodone, you name it. I never overdosed even once.
But I was also the type that didn't like dirtying up my opiate buzz with a benzo or alcohol, so that also played a role.
I use to think it was easy to die or overdose from opioids too after having the propaganda drilled into me as a kid, teenager & young adult.
It wasn't til I experienced opiates first hand that I realized how bogus this was & then it was further confirmed by doing some digging & researching into pharmacology & the history of opiates.
This is not to say overdoses from opioids alone can't or don't happen, cause they can. But it's blown out of proportion & the annual overdose statistics show that people OD'd (atleast before fentanyl) on opioids even less so than people who overdosed on alcohol on annual basis. Especially when you factor in the fact that most "opiate overdoses" are people who had multiple drugs in their system, with a main contributor being alcohol.