About 130 million Americans – many far healthier than the Heckmans – swallow, inject, inhale, infuse, spray and pat on prescribed medication every month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates. Americans buy much more medicine per person than any other country.
The number of prescriptions has swelled by two-thirds over the past decade to 3.5 billion yearly, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical consulting company. Americans devour even more nonprescription drugs, polling suggests.
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Grohol, J. (2005). Are we taking too many drugs?. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/04/19/are-we-taking-too-many-drugs/
Grohol, J. (2005). Are we taking too many drugs?. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/04/19/are-we-taking-too-many-drugs/
