Chart: Drugs Kill Young

Drugs don't just kill nearly 39,000 Americans each year--they kill them young. That's the grim takeaway of a new chart by drug treatment website withdrawal.net, which plots the number of Americans killed by various drugs with their average age at death. As the chart shows, drug overdoses kill more people than car crashes, suicide, HIV, and many types of cancer. People who die of drug overdoses are also younger than people who die of these other causes, with the average age at death of a drug ove...