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A 10 page review of Greg Critser’s expose on the pharmaceutical industry and its impact on American culture. This paper uses a volume of additional research to back up Critser’s contentions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the most visible of those changes is our growing propensity to turn to prescription drugs to sooth all of our ills. Just as we have developed a "supersize it"
mentality when it comes to aspects of our lives such as fast food, SUVs, and houses; we have also developed that mentality with prescription drugs. While just a couple
of generations ago it was more uncommon than common for an individual to be taking any sort of prescription drug, today just the opposite is true. This phenomenon has
been attributed to a variety of factors ranging from an increase in our understanding of illness and the corresponding improvement in the way we treat it, to the ever increasing
psychological and physiological stressors that characterize our modern world. In "Generation Rx", however, author Greg Critser presents a convincing argument that big business, i.e. the pharmaceutical industry itself, has
carefully orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Critser (2007) argues that the drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies in ways that few of us would ever
imagine. Numerous independent researchers offer evidence that back this contention up. Statistics do, in fact, demonstrate an phenomenal increase over
time in the number of prescriptions that the typical American uses. This number grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to
an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the time of Critsers publication of "Generation Rx", Americans had a total of three billion prescriptions at an annual cost
of around $180 billion (Critser, 2007). Critser (2007) projects that this cost will increase to $414 billion by 2011. Critser
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