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#1 An astounding 70 million Americans are taking legal mind-altering drugs right now.
#2 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants during 2010.
#3 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#4 Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs during 2013.
#5 According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
#6 There are 60 million Americans that “abuse alcohol”.
#7 According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 22 million Americans use illegal drugs.
#8 Incredibly, more than 11 percent of all Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have driven home under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
#9 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is an unintentional drug overdose death in the United States every 19 minutes.
#10 In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
#11 According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.
#12 According to Alternet, “11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year” in 2012.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#14 Many of these antidepressants contain warnings that “suicidal thoughts” are one of the side effects that should be expected. The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 rose by close to 30 percent between 1999 and 2010. The number of Americans that are killed by suicide now exceeds the number of Americans that die as a result of car accidents every year.
#15 In 2010, the average teen in the United States was taking 1.2 central nervous system drugs. Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and depression.
#16 Children in the United States are three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants as children in Europe are.
#17 A shocking Government Accountability Office report discovered that approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.
#18 A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than 15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.
#19 It turns out that dealing drugs is extremely profitable. The 11 largest pharmaceutical companies combined to rake in approximately $85,000,000,000 in profits in 2012.
19 Statistics About The Drugging Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Each stat has a credible link in it, if you go to the URL I posted above. (I also wish to distance myself from the author's rant at the URL because it's not as interesting to me as the statistics themselves.)
This got me thinking... could our country's political and economic turmoil somehow be drug related? If so many people are mind altering from legal substances then how can we have a functional polity?
What are your thoughts about this?
well mental distress certainly causes turmoil and confusion (see post below)19 Statistics About The Drugging Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Each stat has a credible link in it, if you go to the URL I posted above. (I also wish to distance myself from the author's rant at the URL because it's not as interesting to me as the statistics themselves.)
This got me thinking... could our country's political and economic turmoil somehow be drug related? If so many people are mind altering from legal substances then how can we have a functional polity?
What are your thoughts about this?
LOL and then there are those of you who "should" be taking medication...it would take the edge off of your self hate which you project onto what you think is "the other side"Explains all the libtards..
Explains all the libtards..
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You call that a responsible answer? How about dealing with the post.
Project much?
You call that a responsible answer? How about dealing with the post.
Good enough for me..
do you...I don't know...I just see your casual but rabid hate of liberals makes you emotional and irrational
but that's okay *shrug* you have to live with yourself...I just have to read you...(occasionally) and it's always the same so I can skip most parts...
If you can't see beyond that you should be medicated which is the subject of the thread and also nicely displays why people are so "f"ed upLiberals did more than enough to earn peoples hatred.
#4 Americans spent more than 280 billion dollars on prescription drugs during 2013.
do you...I don't know...I just see your casual but rabid hate of liberals makes you emotional and irrational
but that's okay *shrug* you have to live with yourself...I just have to read you...(occasionally) and it's always the same so I can skip most parts...
If you can't see beyond that you should be medicated which is the subject of the thread and also nicely displays why people are so "f"ed up
hate and narrow thinking...life is short get over yourself
If you can't see beyond that you should be medicated which is the subject of the thread and also nicely displays why people are so "f"ed up
hate and narrow thinking...life is short get over yourself
no reason to put you on ignore...people like you need to be challenged and I think those as far right as you are dangerous so I like you to put your hate for other human beings right out thereI think it's perfectly rational.. The Orwellian liberal propaganda, their deflection of important issues to nonsense so they can tear us down behind our backs, and the massive amount of people they have brainwashed and indoctrinated is pretty upsetting.. Open your eyes and take a look at what is really going on..
Feel free to put me on ignore..
hate comes from fear...deal with your fear, and you will be okay...No, there is nothing narrow minded about it. They have earned hatred because they always use government force to push their mindset on the rest of the population.
I also don't' require medication because I hate something. What I require is for.the object of my hate to go away
hate comes from fear...deal with your fear, and you will be okay...
so you think only libs self medicate correct?Just what the liberals want is to "medicate" and dumb down, numb, the population to make herding their sheep easier..
No need to deal with reality, here, the nanny has something to make you feel all better..
yes well Henrin I didn't get the quote wrong because it wasn't a quote...I am well aware of how the human mind works, so thus I have no need to rely upon a quoteNo Yoda, you got your quote wrong.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Anyway, the quote is wrong. There is plenty of ways to hate.
yes well Henrin I didn't get the quote wrong because it wasn't a quote...I am well aware of how the human mind works, so thus I have no need to rely upon a quote
hate comes from fear...
there are pills for that too
no reason to put you on ignore...people like you need to be challenged and I think those as far right as you are dangerous so I like you to put your hate for other human beings right out there
it's all good buddy
go take your meds...now get back to the topic if you are able
so you think only libs self medicate correct?
there are pills for that too
nope, only some of you and things would improve for the rest of the world immenselyMan, you really want everyone zombified don't you?
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