Claim: "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."
Fact-check: Rep. Joe Pitts says 120 Americans die daily from overdoses, exceeding deaths from guns
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2016-03-21T00:00:00