Rapid rise seen in fatal medication errors at home

Chow down on those fat person diet pills, diabetes pills, high blood pressure pills, cardiac pills, pain pills, etc. pills and see where they get you.

"Deaths from medication mistakes at home, like actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds."

Oops.

"'The amount of medical supervision is going down and the amount of responsibility put on the patient's shoulders is going up,' said lead author David P. Phillips of the University of California, San Diego."

Poor babies have to be responsible for taking their meds properly themselves.

What an unreasonable burden that is.

"'We're sort of drug happy,' said boomer Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, the University of Arizona's pharmacy dean, who was not involved in the research. 'We have this general attitude that drugs can fix everything.'"

Really?