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Dec 19, 2025
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300,000 American drug related deaths in a year

The claim that 300,000 Americans die from drug-related causes in a single year is not supported by U.S. mortality data: recent national counts and provisional reports put annual drug-involved overdose...

Dec 16, 2025
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What proportion of 2024 US firearm deaths were homicides vs suicides vs accidents?

Available sources show a range of totals for 2024 U.S. firearm deaths (roughly 31,000–45,000 depending on dataset and whether suicides are included) and consistently report that the majority of firear...