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Dangerousness of Pharmaceutical Drugs

 

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According to the FDA, 1.5 millions Americans were hospitalized in 1978 as a consequence of pharmaceutical drugs side effects.  

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30% of all hospitalized people suffered further damage from the therapy prescribed to them.

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In the 1990s about 180,000 medically-induced deaths occur each year in the USA.  These astronomical figures are in spite of the fact that a large number of drug damages go unreported.

bulletA 1998 University of Toronto study announced that 100,000 Americans die every year of reactions to correctly prescribed, FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs, and 2.1 million more Americans are hospitalized annually for the same reason.
bulletIn 1999, the US FDA was sent 258,000 reports of "adverse drug events."  The true figure is dozens to hundreds times more than the reported data.  Dr. David Bates, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard told the Times "... these numbers translate to 36 million adverse drug events per year."
bulletAnother study showed that about 40,000-100,000 Americans were killed by medical mistakes, the 98,000-140,000 a year killed by prescription drugs in American hospitals and the 77,000-88,000 killed by hospital-caused nosocomial infections.
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One study indicated that more than 3 million people died of the pharmaceutical drug side effects per year globally.  

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Leading Cause Of Death And Injury  In The United States

 

In this section, the data only count the properly prescribed and correctly administered pharmaceutical drugs.  It does not include the data of accidents and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs.

The actual number of people who got pharmaceutical drug side effects each year is unavailable, but is estimated to be dozens to hundreds times of the reported death data.

Because of the severe side effects of pharmaceutical drugs, more and more Americans start to seek alternative medicines for treating their diseases.  The ACMA Treatment Center and ACMA Cancer Center are leading alternative medicine centers in the United States.

 

Related links:

Leading Cause Of Death And Injury In The United States

Generation RX

 

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