Videos
~ A Nation of Pill Poppers – VIDEO
~ America the nation of pill poppers – YouTube
~ Prescription Drugs – The Costco Kickbacks – The Fifth Estate – YouTube
~ Prescription Medication Use is Prevalent – Mayo Clinic – YouTube
~ Prescription Thugs (2015 documentary) – YouTube
~ The 10 Most Prescribed Drugs in America – YouTube
Mainstream News – Overprescribed
- ~ America The Medicated – CBS News
- ~ Federal Survey Finds 119 Million Americans Use Prescription Drugs – NPR
- ~ Half of Americans Currently Taking Prescription Medication Nearly 9 in 10 seniors say they take prescriptions. – Gallup
- ~ More Americans Taking Prescription Drugs – ABC News
- ~ Nearly One in Two Americans Takes Prescription Drugs – Bloomberg
- ~ Nearly 50% take prescription drugs – (2014) – UK – BBC News
- ~ Nearly 60 percent of Americans — the highest ever — are taking prescription drugs – (2015) The Washington Post
- ~ Pill nation- Are we too reliant on prescription meds? – Today
- ~ Prescription Drugs: 7 Out Of 10 Americans Take At Least One, Study Finds – HuffPost Life
- ~ Prescription Drugs on the Rise- Estimates Suggest 60 Percent of Americans Take at Least One Medication – Newsweek
- ~ Study: One-third of US teens, young adults abuse prescription psychoactive drugs – UPI.com
- ~ Study shows 70 percent of Americans take prescription drugs – CBS News
- ~ Study: 34% of older U.S. adults prescribed potentially inappropriate drugs. The prescriptions were linked to increased hospitalizations – AJC
- ~ Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication We now take more pills than ever. Is that doing more harm than good? – Consumer Reports
- ~ Women And Prescription Drugs: One In Four Takes Mental Health Meds – HuffPost
Videos – Dangerous and Deadly
~ Dangers of Prescribed Drugs- Dr. Winkelmann, CHOC Children’s – YouTube
~ Dangers of Prescription Drugs (Pill Nation) – YouTube
~ Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes – YouTube
Mainstream News – Dangerous and Deadly
- ~ 100,000 Deaths Per Year In The U.S. Caused By Prescription Drugs – News Punch
- ~ Column: Marilyn Monroe and the prescription drugs that killed her – PBS NewsHour
- ~ Deadly Medicine – Vanity Fair
- ~ Death By Prescription By one estimate, taking prescribed medications is the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. – US News
- ~ Prescription Drugs Are Far More Deadly Than Street Drugs – Psychology Today
- ~ Prescribed Drugs’ Toll Is Among Deadliest – Washingtonpost.com
Videos – Prescription Drug Abuse
~ DEA Agents Address Prescription Drug Addiction “Epidemic” – YouTube
~ Many Americans are mixing alcohol and medication – YouTube
~ Missouri’s prescription drug problem – YouTube
~ Special Report: Prescription Drug Abuse Part I – YouTube
~ Special Report: Prescription Drug Abuse Part II – YouTube
~ Special Report: Prescription Drug Abuse Part III – YouTube
~ Taxpayers Footing Bill for Prescription Drug Abuse – YouTube
~ The Abuse of Prescription Drugs – Documentary Video – YouTube
~ The Big Lie – American Addict (How perscription drugs has damaged America)
Independent News
- ~ America the drugged, America the medicated, America the deceived – Church of Good News
- ~ Americans Taking More Prescription Drugs Than Ever – WebMD
- ~ CDC Prescription Drugs Kill More Than Illegal Drugs; Teens at High Risk – The New American
- ~ Only 5% of the World Population, U.S. Takes 50% of Big Pharma Drugs – Natural Society
- ~ Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime – Peter Gøtzsch
- ~ Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Take Prescription Drugs, Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Medical Center Find – Mayo Clinic News Network
- ~ New Prescription Drugs A Major Health Risk With Few Offsetting Advantages – Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics – Harvard University
- ~ Percentage of Americans Taking Multiple Prescription Drugs Rises – The New American
- ~ Prescription Drugs- The United States vs. Canada – Sunrise House
- ~ Removing the Profit From Our Pills The Case for a Public Pharma System – Common Dreams Views
- ~ United States Tops 4 Billion Annual Prescriptions- Is Our Health Improving? – HealthyConsumer.com
- ~ US prescription drug spending tops $500 billion a year, looms over 2020 elections – U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman
- ~ Why Is the Government Allowing Its Own Drug Research to Be Monopolized for Profit – Common Dreams Views
- ~ With 70 Percent of Americans on Medication, Have We Become a Pill Culture – Health Line
Books
Facts and Stats
- ~ FastStats – Therapeutic Drug Use
- ~ Total drug prescriptions dispensed in the U.S. 2009-2019 – Statista
- ~ Total number of retail prescriptions filled annually in the U.S. 2013-2025 – Statista
Reports
- ~ Age and Sex Patterns of Drug Prescribing in a Defined American Population – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- ~ Age and Sex Patterns of Drug Prescribing in a Defined American Population. Mayo Clinic Proceedings – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ Creating Demand for Prescription Drugs- A Content Analysis of Television Direct-to-Consumer Advertising – Annals of Family Medicine
- ~ Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers. – PubMed – NCBI
- ~ Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012 – Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology – JAMA Network
Websites