Here’s a question for you: Which causes more deaths, motor vehicle traffic accidents or firearms? I asked a bunch of people that question, including a bunch of doctors, and everyone said that motor vehicles did, by a lot. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2013, 33,804 people died from motor vehicle traffic accidents — and 33,636 died from firearms… [That’s about 92 per day.]
Your next question might be, how many people die from drug overdoses every day?
http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/
Every day, 44 people in the U.S. die from overdose of prescription painkillers…
(It doesn’t say which year these statistics are from.)
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/causes_of_death#sthash.Qtvx5DmF.dpbs
In 2013:
Drug Overdose Total: 43,982 [120 per day]
Prescription Analgesics Total: 16,235 [44 per day]
Heroin Overdose Total: 6,235 [17 per day]
Alcohol-Induced Deaths: 29,001 [79 per day]
Cannabis (Marijuana): 0 [Zero per day]
Intentional Self-Harm (Suicide): 41,149 [113 per day]
Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,979 [156 per day]
All Things Chronic 
Interesting stats
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Reblogged this on Fibromyalgia Files Blog and commented:
Really puts it into perspective, thank you “All Things Chronic”.
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