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Jack Kingston: Now, there is a statistic, though, that the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave to the gentleman and myself…

On the recordJuly 10, 2002
Now, there is a statistic, though, that the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave to the gentleman and myself recently that 98,000 people a year actually do die from misapplication of prescription drugs, not taking their medicine properly or timely. And I know that the University of Minnesota, which I think is not in the gentleman's district, has done a study to find something like 40 percent of prescription drugs are used incorrectly.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the dangers of misapplication of prescription drugs.

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