Guns and drugs are killing people at unprecedented rates

In Trends in Mortality From Poisonings, Firearms, and All Other Injuries by Intent in the US, 1999-2020, several institutions led by the National Institutes of Health found that deaths due to external causes per 100,000 population rose from 65.6 in 1999 to 103.5 in 2020, with poisonings making up most of the difference at +31.18. See also: Preventable deaths.