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Average Senior Takes 25 Prescriptions per Year

Our country is in sad shape in that the average person in the country consumes one drug a month, now I haven't taken any prescription drugs in many years and most of you reading this haven't either, so someone is taking our drugs, and the average is really much worse than even this alarming statistic suggests. However, the numbers really tell the story for seniors. The number of senior citizens subjected to a potentially dangerous over-medication has more than doubled since 1999. A study...