Wednesday, February 22, 2012

ANOTHER THING WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN

People are always throwing out statistics about how the USA has only five percent of the world's population but uses more resources than...or has the most prisoners per capita in the world...etc.

The latest startling statistic I got from Bill Mohr on his show last week, that we're five percent of the world's population but we use fifty-six percent of prescribed painkillers. That's an interesting one.

Either we feel more pain, handle it less well, or hmmmmm just maybe drug companies convince us through advertising and putting doctors on their payroll or perk circuit that we NEED painkillers more and more painkillers.

Not to diminish the need to reduce true pain for those who truly need it. But still....

6 comments:

tom said...

That is an interesting stat and it does make you pause and think about why. Enjoyed the videos -

tom said...

I want to get back to this - I had to finish up talking with my daughter who is teaching in China. Some doctors certainly allow abuse of painkillers - we see them handed around from parents to kids here - or kids stealing their grandparent's pills - my brother-in-law abused them for years - getting them for his "back pain" just changed doctors every so.

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Lally said...

Woops. Tom, sorry I deleted your comment. My post brain-op directions to my fingers went to the wrong key. Meant to delete the obvious one.

Lally said...

Hmmm, now your comment's back. Hope that doesn't happen with you know who.