Statistics are boring (well, for most people). What I aim to do here in order to make this as brief yet interesting as possible is to break the info down and delve deep into the meaning of these Numbers with a capital N.
The last blog post about this discussed anecdotal stories of how over-prescribing medication in the US is doing more harm than good. For those who don’t like anecdotes as partial evidence, there are tons of statistics out there to support this theory of an overmedicalized society. Just Google “prescribed medication history in the US” from earlier years to present day. Using Google Scholar will get you peer-reviewed articles from PhD level scholars in the fields they study.