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New prescription drugs have a 1 in 5 chance of causing serious reactions after they have been approved. That is why ethical physicians recommend not taking new drugs for at least five years unless patients have first tried better-established options, and have the need to do so.

Systematic reviews of hospital charts found that even properly prescribed drugs (aside from mis-prescribing, overdosing, or self-prescribing) cause about 1.9 million hospitalizations a year.

Another 840,000 hospitalized patients are given drugs that cause serious adverse reactions for a total of 2.74 million serious adverse drug reactions.

About 128,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them.

This makes prescription drugs a major health risk, ranking 4th with stroke as a leading cause of death.

The European Commission estimates that adverse reactions from prescription drugs cause 200,000 deaths; so together, about 328,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe die from prescription drugs each year.

The FDA does not acknowledge these facts and instead gathers a small fraction of the cases.

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