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Anonymous ID: 64b66e July 22, 2025, 1:23 a.m. No.23361874   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1875 >>1958 >>2031 >>2166 >>2331 >>2430 >>2506

What To Know About Big Pharma, In Charts

 

Tuesday, Jul 22, 2025 - 08:15 AM

 

Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

 

Prescription drugs provide relief from pain, fight infection, stabilize moods, reduce inflammation, combat dread diseases, and extend lives.

The Epoch Times

 

These medications have become a fact of life for many—perhaps most—Americans. On average, half of them took at least one prescription drug in a given month, according to a recent CDC survey. More than 13 percent took five or more.

 

And the rate is growing.

 

In 2020 Americans filled 6.4 billion prescriptions, about 19 per person.

 

By 2023, Americans were consuming more than 210 billion daily doses of medication annually. That’s more than 600 pills, shots, drops, IVs, creams, mists, or suppositories for every person in the country.