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Three Billion Prescriptions and Counting

Last year Americans filled over 3 billion prescriptions, and the cost of these drugs has more than doubled in five years. That's 12 prescriptions for every man, women, and child in America. Has the American dream become two kids, two cars and a dozen drugs in each person's medicine chest? Dr. Cohen wrote this article and has been featured on my site previously. He wrote the book Over Dose, which goes into far more detail about this problem. Medication Sense.com