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Boondock Saint
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death and prescription medications are the fourth leading cause of deaths, and you want me to trust your experimental gene therapy. Ya right.
At least 34,000 reports in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of people who died while using biologic drugs since 2004, according to an extensive analysis by the Milwakee Journal Sentinal of data from the agency. More than 1 million "adverse events" were reported in people using the drugs during that time, including nearly 500,000 that were deemed serious, the investigation found.
A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.
Although no data shows the exact number of NSAID deaths each year 7,600 deaths were estimated in 1991 and 16,500 deaths were estimated in 1998.
For the first time ever in the US, more people were killed by drugs than motor vehicle accidents 37,485 people died from drugs, a rate fueled by overdoses on prescription pain and anxiety medications, versus 36,284 from traffic accidents Drug fatalities more than doubled among teens and young adults between 2000 and 2008, and more than tripled among people aged 50 to 69
In fact, more than 91 Americans fatally overdose on opioids every day.2 The statistic includes prescription opioids, heroin and fentanyl, but many of the deaths stem from prescription drug use. Of the more than 33,000 Americans killed by opioids in 2015, nearly half of them involved a prescription for the drugs.
In 2000 the Institutes of Medicine reported that medical errors were the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., killing between 44,000 and 98,000 people each year.
In 2015, the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that nearly 9,000 reported deaths were caused by benzodiazepine overdose.
Antidepressants Cause 40,000 Deaths a Year
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just announced that the manufacturers of Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel, and Remicade must strengthen the existing "Black Box" warnings because of the risk of developing opportunistic fungal infections.
In the US, overdose mortality data are collected in the National Vital Statistics System.3,4 According to an analysis of these data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 36,450 deaths were caused by drug overdoses in 2008.3 Nearly three-quarters of the 20,044 prescription drug-related deaths (14,800) were linked to opioid pain relievers. This equates to 4.8 deaths due to opioid overdose per 100,000 people in the US. By 2010, an estimated 16,651 overdose deaths were linked to opioid pain relievers; 6,631 in women and 10,020 in men.4 This represents an alarming increase from 1999—415% for women and 265% for men.
Mortality reported with NSAID use is generally linked to NSAID-associated GI bleeding, and the reported incidence is quite variable. Much of the literature reports 16,500 deaths annually
In 2014, 10,574 people died of heroin overdose while 15,778 died from an overdose of psychiatric medications, nearly 50% more.
We often hear the shocking fact that deaths from heroin increased nearly 5 fold (374%) between 1999 and 2014, but rarely – if ever – do we hear that deaths from psychiatric drug overdoses have increased nearly 4 fold (278%) over the same time period. The Food and Drug Administration has received reports on 1,128 people who died after taking Actemra, and has reviewed its safety several times since it was approved.
Daily aspirin behind more than 3,000 deaths a year
Shall I continue??