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Drug overdoses claimed more lives in the U.S. than firearms for the first time ever this year, CBS reports.
It's evident that this epidemic has gotten out of control — in 2016 alone, 50,000 Americans died from overdoses, while 20.5 million were addicted to drugs.
Over the course of modern American history, more people who have died from drug use than during wars, motor vehicle accidents and disease.
Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER, DrugAbuse.com created a graph to demonstrate just how extreme those numbers are: