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    Mar 10, 2009, 02:25 PM
    Too many medications
    I just wanted to post this article about the effects of taking too many different drugs at once.

    I think it's important for people to know about.

    Is Your Parent Over-Medicated?
    When Siri Carpenter suspected her mother's multiple prescriptions were causing memory loss, she discovered an epidemic that affects millions

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    Mar 10, 2009, 09:54 PM

    Very good article.

    My Mother and My uncle have a list of medicine for everything you can think of and I tell them that the medicine is only going to kill them one day.

    My aunt, years ago collapsed dead one day and they think her heart gave out because of all the different medications. I remember I went there for breakfast one day and I must have seen 20 different pill bottles.

    It is an epedemic and it happens a lot but some people you can explain and talk to until blue in the face but all they want is there drugs.

    Not saying they are all bad or that some are not absolutely necessary but there has to be some kind of control.

    Patients needs to take that extra to step to question the doctors, pharmacists , etc...

    Thank you for the article.

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