In an average American year:

1. 27,000 Americans commit suicide, a disproportionate number of which are gay teens
2. 23,000 are murdered
3. 85,000 are wounded by firearms, with 38,000 dying from the wounds
4. 13,000,000 are victims of violent crime
5. 6,500,000 use illegal hard drugs on a regular basis
6. 5,000 die from illicit drug use
7. 1,000 children die from sniffing toxic substances, thousands suffering permanent damage to their brains
8. 31,450,000 use marijuana regularly; 3,000,000 of them are heavy users
9. 37,000,000 (1/6 of all Americans) regularly take psychotropic (mood altering) drugs
10. 2,000,000 non-hospitalized persons are given anti-psychotic drugs
11. 5,000 die from psychoactive drug side effects
12. 600 - 1000 receive lobotomies
13. 200,000 receive electroshock therapy
14. 180,000 die from adverse reactions from medical treatments
15. 14,000 die from overdoses of legal prescription drugs
16. 126,000 are born with a major birth defect, most of which are caused by industrial chemical toxins, drugs or malnutrition
17. 2,900,000 children are reported to be victims of serious neglect, abuse, torture or deliberate starvation; however, the vast majority of such childhood violence is never reported
18. 5,000 children are killed by parents or grandparents
19. 30,000 are left permanently disabled from abuse and neglect
20. 1,000,000 children run away from home mostly because of abuse
21. Battered children and women, raped women, missing children, unidentified dead children number in the hundreds of thousands and represent an epidemic of domestic violence
22. 60,000 die because of toxic environmental pollutants or industrial contaminants in food, water or air
23. 5,100,000 are in prison, on probation or are on parole; 2,700,000 currently locked up. Each week 1,600 more enter prison each week than leave
24. 1,000,000 children are kept in orphanages, reformatories and adult prisons, with institutional abuses common
25. 950,000 school children are treated with amphetamine-types drugs for ADHD
26. 4,500,000 children suffer from malnutrition, many of whom suffer brain damage
27. 40,000,000 persons have been sexually molested as children usually between the ages of 9 and 12
28. 32,000,000 are chronically under- or unemployed, suffering malnutrition, inadequate health and dental care, inadequate or unsafe housing and poor educational and employment training opportunities for the children
29. 80,000,000 live on incomes below the "comfort" level, 35,000,000 below the poverty level
30. 2,000,000 are homeless, forced to live on the streets or in makeshift shelters
31. 160,000,000 are members of households that are in debt, the majority of which have borrowed money not for luxuries, but for necessities