DRUG OVERDOSES
KILL MORE
THAN CARS, GUNS, AND FALLING.

Falling	28,360 deaths
Guns	32,351 deaths Trafic accidents	33,692 deaths
Drug overdoses	41,340 deaths
(16,917 from opioid pain medicine)

Source: CDC Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) on Mortality: http://wonder.cdc.gov/mortsql.html (2011)