Medication - sometimes it's not good for you

As discussed in Adverse Drug Reactions, more than 1.5 million people are hospitalized and more than 100,000 die each year from largely preventable adverse reactions to drugs that should not have been prescribed as they were in the first place.⁶

A recent comprehensive review of studies of such inappropriate prescribing in older patients found that 21.3% of community-dwelling patients 65 years or older were using at least one drug inappropriately prescribed.

If you are going on long term medication or want to find out about drug 'issues' spend an evening on this website - pay the sub - it could be worth your while.
The articles below are free to access.

• Misprescribing & overprescribing of drugs

• Diseases caused by drugs

• The public health crisis of adverse drug reactions

• How to protect your family from adverse drug reactions

• Cutting your prescription drug bill

• Facts and myths about generic drugs

• Ten rules for safer drug use

• Drugs, Money and Politics