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What kills more people? Guns or Doctors prescriptions?

CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic
Weekly
January 13, 2012 / 61(01);10-13

This is another in a series of occasional MMWR reports titled CDC Grand Rounds. These reports are based on grand rounds presentations at CDC on high-profile issues in public health science, practice, and policy. Information about CDC Grand Rounds is available at http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds.

In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, one death every 19 minutes. Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm