Whats the number of people killed by prescription drugs in the United States annually?
According to information we have received, a statistical study of hospital deaths in the U.S. conducted at the University of Toronto revealed that pharmaceutical drugs kill more people every year than are killed in traffic accidents. The study is said to show that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) {within the 12-month period of the study and, of these, over 100,000 died} as a result. The researchers found that over 75 per cent of these ADRs were dose-dependent, which suggests they were due to the inherent toxicity of the drugs rather than to allergic reactions. {The data did not include fatal reactions caused by accidental overdoses or errors in administration of the drugs.
