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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.
- 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.
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For more information,
please visit
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
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