Off Topic- 100,000 deaths due to prescriptions, 0 due to supplements, lets regulate supplements

The Dr. Oz Show: Information I Couldn’t Share Mercola Feb 2014

• Prescription medications kill over 100,000 people each year when properly prescribed, while vitamins have not caused a single death in 27 years.
• Painkillers alone kill 23,000 Americans each year
• in 2009 alone, there were nearly 4.6 million drug-related visits to American emergency rooms,
    with more than half due to adverse reactions to prescription medications – most of which were being taken exactly as prescribed.

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