Over the last five years, the number of medications being prescribed by doctors has grown drastically from 2.1 billion, to well over 3.5 billion. The increase is not due to a rapid growth in the population, our population becoming increasing unhealthy, or even a growing number of new medications to treat a larger number of illnesses. The increase is a combination of doctors receiving incentives from the large drug companies that give the patien Read the rest of this entry »