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America’s Healthcare System is Killing Us

America’s Healthcare System is Killing Us
May 24, 2018Dr. Steven Zodkoy, DCLatest Newshealthcareherbsnsaidnutritionalopioidspainkillerssupplements

Helpful or Fatally Harmful?

The American healthcare system is undoubtedly flawed.  However did you know that each year, hundreds of thousands of people are dying as a direct result? Below, we overview the most common causes of death as a result of our healthcare system:

Prescribed Medications

Approximately 128,000 Americans die each year as a result of taking medications as prescribed – or nearly five times the number of people killed by overdosing on prescription painkillers and heroin. (Death By Prescription by Michael O. Schroeder)

Opioids

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, in 2016, there were 63,632 drug overdose deaths in the United States. The CDC further estimates that of those, 42,249 deaths involved opioids.

NSAIDS

At least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone.”(Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)

 

Woman taking medicine overdose and lying on the wooden floor with open pills bottle. Concept of overdose and suicide.
Acetaminophen

Data compiled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has linked as many as 980 deaths in a year to drugs containing acetaminophen.

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Consumer Product Safety Commission numbers estimates 2 deaths a year.
Nutritional Supplements: 
“No Deaths from Supplements. No Deaths from Minerals or Amino Acids. No Deaths from Homeopathics or Herbs.”

– Andrew W. Saul, Editor (Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 5, 2017)

The exact numbers can be argued but the trends cannot. Drugs whether prescribed, OTC or illegal are killing us with the FDA doing nothing.  Meanwhile, nutritional supplements are constantly under attack even though they cause no significant health risk.

Shares these facts the next time your physician says supplements are a waste, unproven, or dangerous.   Well, at least they do no harm.

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