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When the treatment is worse than the disease.

The number of prescriptions taken per capita in the United States has grown exponentially in the past 75 years. In 1929, the average American received less than two prescriptions per year. By 2007, the average annual prescription rate per capita in the United States was:

• 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18)

• Over 11 prescriptions per adult (age 19-64)

• Nearly 29 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over!

Yet, adverse drug reactions -- from "properly" prescribed drugs -- are actually the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Only heart disease, cancer, and stroke kill more Americans than drugs prescribed by medical doctors.

Reactions to prescription drugs kill more than twice as many Americans as HIV/AIDS or suicide. Fewer die from accidents or diabetes than adverse drug reactions. And this does NOT include the negative drug reactions in outpatients, cases of malpractice, or instances where the drugs were not taken as directed.

Yet, whenever you feel sick, you probably still think that you need to go to your doctor and get some medicine to make you better. Well, this mindset is deeply engrained in us from the time we’re infants and taken to the doctor for a minor cold, or given a pill to bring down a fever (which is actually there to help you get better) or watch a television commercial or read a magazine (at least in the US).

We’re taught that we need doctors and drugs to heal our bodies, when in reality your body can, and will, heal itself if you give it the right tools (like good food, exercise and a positive outlook).

If you take only one thing from this article, make it this point: Drugs often cause more problems than the disease you’re trying to treat.

And the more you attempt to “cure” one problem after another with multiple drugs, the farther down the rabbit hole you’ll go.

The Countless Ways Prescription Drugs Assault Your Body

The article has an eye-opening list of what can happen if you rely on drugs to treat disease:

• Nearly all anti-diabetic drugs cause a person to become overweight and totally dependent upon insulin.

• Asthma drugs sensitize your body to triggers that worsen this condition.

• There is no evidence that cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce mortality rates.

• All cancer chemotherapy drugs result in tumor resistance.

• None of the many drugs prescribed to control high blood pressure address the cause of hypertension.

• Antacid “heartburn” drugs induce greater problems when withdrawing from them, locking patients into lifetime use.

• Of the many drugs used to treat age-related senility, none stop the progression of mental decline and some hasten it.

• To an increasing degree, man-made antibiotics produce germ-resistance and mortality rates are rising from infections once conquered by these drugs.