According to a new report from the CDC, about half of Americans take at least one prescription drug a month. Ten percent of Americans take more than four.
A lot of money is being spent on those drugs, too. In 2011, Americans spent $263 billion on prescription drugs, accounting for 9.7 percent of all national health expenditures.
Other findings included:
- Direct-to-consumer advertising for all drugs tripled between 1996 and 2005 to $4.2 billion
- Use of antidepressants more than quadrupled between the years of 1998-94 and 2007-10, from 2.4 percent to 10.8 percent
- Prescription of antibiotics for cold symptoms declined 39 percent between 1995-96 and 2009-10
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