It’s true: Prescription painkillers are far more dangerous than owning a gun… Do you have meds in your house?
by: Daniel Barker
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, June 05, 2016
A good portion of Americans have been frightened into believing that having a gun in the home is a dangerous liability, but the truth is that you are far more likely to die if you have prescription opioids in your medicine cabinet than if you own a firearm.
Americans consume more prescription painkillers than anyone else; in fact, 80 percent of all prescription painkillers are sold in the United States, even though we account for only 5 percent of the world’s population.
Approximately 4.7 million Americans are addicted to prescription painkillers – a number that has increased around 300 percent since 1999. Opioid painkiller overdoses killed 28,000 people in 2014.
Gun death numbers dropping, overdose deaths on the rise
The mainstream media pays far more attention to gun violence than to the opioid epidemic, but the fact is that death by firearm rates have been steadily dropping as painkiller overdose rates continue to rise.
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