American Prescription Drug Use

Food For Thought!!

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
2005
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