Category: Dangerous Medications
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Prescription Drug Use in America: The Startling Numbers And Their Implications
In 2002, Americans filled 3,340,000,000 outpatient prescriptions.1 That’s 12 prescriptions for every man, women, and child in America. Has the American dream become 2 kids, 2 cars, and a dozen drugs in each person’s medicine chest? Despite a cold economy in which most industries have seen sales drop, U.S. drug sales increased substantially in 2002,…