If you exceed an aspirin dose by 10 times a severe reaction from salicylate poisoning can occur. Also, be concerned if you suffer from arthritis and take aspirin frequently in low doses. With time you may develop a stomach ulcer, or your arthritis may actually worsen because aspirin damages collages and erodes cartilage in your joints. An irregular heartbeat . These are examples of overdosing on medication, but, unfortunately, you do not even need to overdose on a drug to endanger your health.
Every pharmaceutical drug has side effects.
Most pharmaceutical drugs are particularly detrimental to the liver, where most of them are eliminated, and they are also dangerous to the kidneys. The fact that drugs have to be registered, or that they have been approved by the FDA, does not mean that they are safe. More than half of the approved drugs have serious side effects not detected prior to approval for sale to the public. According to a finding published in the Journal of the American Medical Association the safety of more than 5000 drugs already on the market in the US are monitored by a small staff that includes only nine health professionals. In addition to 100,000 people who die each year as a result of taking medication, about 90,000 more die as a result of medical errors.