Polypharmacy has reached epidemic proportions according to the Lown Institute’s recent report. Nearly 20 percent of older adults take ten drugs or more and in the next 10 years more than 150,000 premature deaths will occur due to adverse drug effects.

For more info, see: https://lowninstitute.org/medication-overload-how-the-drive-to-prescribe-is-harming-older-americans/