Dangerousness of Pharmaceutical Drugs
 | According to the FDA, 1.5 millions Americans were hospitalized in 1978 as a consequence of pharmaceutical drugs side effects. |
| 30% of all hospitalized people suffered further damage from the therapy prescribed to them. |
| 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. |
| A 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. |
| In 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." |
| Another 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. |