Breaking Research For 1-5-2001

ccording to the Institute of Medicine, prescription errors due to misreading physician's handwriting kill up to 7000 Americans each year. The annual cost to society is estimated at $77 billion. Seventy seven billion dollars a year!

Doctors in this country write three billion prescriptions each year. And though it's been a standing joke for decades, 7000 preventable deaths each year is no laughing matter. Add this to the average 137,000 people that die each year just as a result of taking prescription medication where no mistakes or abuse is involved and I would say we have a bit of a problem.

It's kind of ironic when you read in the press a negative article on supplements they always talk about the lack of government regulation making the products safety questionable. Yet by comparison, nutritional supplements void of government regulation are thousands of times more safe than highly regulated and enormously profitable prescription drugs.

Just a little food for thought.

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