Are Americans Overmedicated?
Series: At issue: health
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780737751413
Table of contents: title: Americans take too many prescription drugs / J. Douglas Bremner; title: Prescription drugs help millions live better lives / Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA); title: Psychiatric drugs are overprescribed / Charles Barber; title: ADHD drugs are overprescribed for children / Linda Marsa; title: ADHD drugs are appropriately prescribed for children / Hannah Seligson; title: Ads do not significantly increase demand for unneeded medications / Brian Alexander; title: Low-income children are more likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs / Duff Wilson; title: Wichita witch hunt-the Justice Department wages war on pain relief / Harvey Silvergate; title: Mixing multiple medications causes health problems for elderly Americans / Anne Harding; title: Overuse of antibiotics creates drug-resistant bacteria / Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason; title: "Doctor shopping" can lead to overmedication, abuse, and death / Madison Park