- May 14, 2012
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While everyone argues about whether or not to ban guns, it's actually drugs that are increasingly responsible for preventable deaths in the United States. And the core of the problem is prescription painkillers:
If there's a growing epidemic of needless death in America, it's not being caused by guns.
This chart somewhat surprised me:Drugs overtook traffic accidents as a cause of death in the country in 2009, and the gap has continued to widen.
Overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers rose to 16,651 in 2010, the CDC researchers found. That was 43% of all fatal overdoses.
If there's a growing epidemic of needless death in America, it's not being caused by guns.