» Medication http://www.cwcslo.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:21:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Prescription Drug Statistics… http://www.cwcslo.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/prescription-drug-statistics/ http://www.cwcslo.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/prescription-drug-statistics/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:27:00 +0000 SLO Wellness http://www.cwcslo.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/prescription-drug-statistics/ American Prescription Drug Use 


“The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per 

person, annually, in 1993 was seven. 

The average number of prescriptions [drugs] per 

person, annually, in 2000 was eleven. 

[The average number of prescriptions drugs per 

person], annually, in 2004 was twelve. 

The total number of annual prescriptions [drugs] in 

the United States now stands at about 3 billion. 

The cost per year is about $180 billion, 

headed to an estimated $414 billion by 2011. 

Pretty soon, you are talking real money.” 


Generation Rx 

How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, 

Minds, and Bodies 

Greg Critser 

Houghton Mifflin Company

 

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