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Are Americans overmedicated? /

by Thompson, Tamara [edt].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: At issueHealth: Publisher: Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2011Description: 96 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780737751413 (hardcover); 073775141X (hardcover); 9780737751420 (pbk.); 0737751428 (pbk.).Subject(s): Americans -- Drug use | Drug utilization -- United States | Americans -- Drug use
Contents:
Americans take too many prescription drugs / J. Douglas Bremner -- Prescription drugs help millions live better lives / Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) -- Psychiatric drugs are overprescribed / Charles Barber -- ADHD drugs are overprescribed for children / Linda Marsa -- ADHD drugs are appropriately prescribed for children / Hannah Seligson -- Ads do not significantly increase demand for unneeded medications / Brian Alexander -- Low-income children are more likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs / Duff Wilson -- Wichita witch hunt-the Justice Department wages war on pain relief / Harvey Silvergate -- Mixing multiple medications causes health problems for elderly Americans / Anne Harding -- Overuse of antibiotics creates drug-resistant bacteria / Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason -- "Doctor shopping" can lead to overmedication, abuse, and death / Madison Park.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Americans take too many prescription drugs / J. Douglas Bremner -- Prescription drugs help millions live better lives / Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) -- Psychiatric drugs are overprescribed / Charles Barber -- ADHD drugs are overprescribed for children / Linda Marsa -- ADHD drugs are appropriately prescribed for children / Hannah Seligson -- Ads do not significantly increase demand for unneeded medications / Brian Alexander -- Low-income children are more likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs / Duff Wilson -- Wichita witch hunt-the Justice Department wages war on pain relief / Harvey Silvergate -- Mixing multiple medications causes health problems for elderly Americans / Anne Harding -- Overuse of antibiotics creates drug-resistant bacteria / Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason -- "Doctor shopping" can lead to overmedication, abuse, and death / Madison Park.

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