America's Deadliest Pills

Huffington Post by Kevin Gray
For the first time in nearly a century, automobile accidents are no longer the nation's leading cause of accidental deaths, according to a major report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The new number one killer is drugs -- not smack, crystal meth or any other stepped-on menace sold in urban alleyways or trailer parks, but bright, shiny pills prescribed by doctors, approved by the government, manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and sold to the consumer as "medicine." Yet of the billions of legit pills Americans pop every year for medical conditions serious and otherwise, the vast majority of lives are claimed by only a select few classes -- painkillers, sedatives and stimulants -- that all share a common characteristic: they promote abuse, dependence and addiction.

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