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Lifetime Risk of Death From Firearm Injuries, Drug Overdoses, and Motor...

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News media and policy makers frequently discuss deaths from firearms, drug overdoses, and motor vehicle accidents. Numerical details about these 3 causes of death are usually presented in news stories and in government reports as absolute numbers (eg, 67,000 drug overdose deaths last year) or as annual rates (eg, 12 motor vehicle accident deaths/100,000 population). But people often have...