The CDC has classified prescription drug abuse as an epidemic.

Here is the link to a fact-filled article about rapidly growing prescription drug abuse in America.  The article was posted on The White House website (whitehouse.gov), and lists many facts published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The CDC has classified prescription drug abuse in the United States as ... an epidemic.

There is a chart that shows the number of deaths from homicides, gunshot deaths, suicides, drug-induced deaths and motor-vehicle fatalities.  What order would you put those five "causes of death" in?