Over 225,000 people die annually due to medical mistakes.
Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
46% of Americans take at least one prescription pill daily
In 2005, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that pharmaceutical drug overdoses killed 33,000 people that year
106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medications
The United States has the greatest annual sickness-care expenditure of any nation; $912 billion in 1993 alone. If money and medical treatment equals health then one would expect the United States to be the healthiest of nations
10,000+ die each year due to over use of Aspirin
Each day in the United States, roughly 100,000 pharmaceutical company sales reps (earning, on average, $81,700 per year) visit the nation’s 311,000 office-based physicians. Their numbers have more than doubled in the last decade.
In 2004, 86% of drug companies’ promotional spending was on physician samples - those “free” packets your doctor gives you to try a medication before you fill a prescription.
The drug companies spent 11 billion on drug research and 44 billion on marketing to us.
