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(Consumer Reports) America's love affair with rx drugs
« on: August 17, 2017, 04:03:05 pm »
People in the US are popping far too many pills, as this article in Consumer Reports (September 2017) points out, mentioning that there has been an 85% increase in the number of prescription drugs US adults and children are taking in the last 20 years though the population has increased by only 21%:

America's Love Affair with Prescription Medication
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