Allen Jones Quotes on Drugs (2 Quotes)

My best effort at correlating dollars spent with deaths from drug side effects suggests that people may be dying from side effects from the schizophrenia drugs alone at the rate of at least one death for each one million dollars spent on these drugs. The actual numbers may reflect a much higher death rate.

In 2003, there was a total of 139 million in public spending on just two classes of drugs, SSRI antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics. A large portion of these dollars were spent to maintain children on these drugs, ... despite the fact that they have not been proven effective in children and the FDA has not approved them for use in children.