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| 9/3/2010 |
Prescription Drug Use Climbs In U.S.
(Undated) -- Prescription drug use in the U.S. has jumped ten percent in the past decade. A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that 48 percent of Americans took at least one prescription drug a month in 2008. Nearly 40 percent of adults over 60 took at least five prescription medications each month. Meanwhile, U.S. spending on prescription drugs from 1998 to 2008 more than doubled to just over 234-billion dollars. One in every five kids under age 12 took a prescription drug each month, with asthma and allergy treatments being the most common. Teenagers were most often treated for attention-deficit disorder, while antidepressants were the most commonly used drugs for adults between the ages of 20 and 59. Adults over 60 most often took cholesterol-lowering medications. |
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