Drug consumption is skyrocketing and it is necessary to stop taking so much medication

2023-10-16 12:48:38

A few days ago we commented on the damage caused by some groups of medicineslike the benzodiazepines, so-called tranquilizers. With prolonged consumption of these there is a twice greater risk of falls and fractures (hip, wrist).

Now I read a good report with the forceful title of Spain needs to stop taking medication. And it offers a rather surprising piece of information: Every day in Spain there are ten deaths due to accidental fallsin some cases linked to the taking of benzodiazepines. Apparently, falls are the second cause of unnatural death in our country.

And we’re taking those tranquilizers like they’re candy. They are consumed, legally, 110 daily doses of this type of drugs per 1,000 inhabitants. That is, around 10% of the population takes them regularly. In Germany, they only consume 0.04 doses per day.

The benzodiazepine group is widely prescribed and misused as it should not be used for more than six weeks, but many people ingest them for months and years…

It is not an isolated case, as the text mentioned above documents. In just a decade, the number of patients with simultaneous prescriptions for five or more medications It tripled, and those who took 10 or more multiplied by 10.

By age group, in 2015, more than 28% of those over 64 years of age were polymedicated. But the reality may be worse since this data underestimates true consumption since it does not include the hospital use of drugs, which is so abundant, nor the self-medication, to which we are so prone in our country.

Now this work is being done for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, but the trend is upward. And then there is the economic issue since per capita spending on drugs has risen 26% since 2014, up to 275 euros per year. And things get worse, in July of this year, the administrations spent a total of 1,121 million on prescriptions. With this mess, only the same people as always win, guess who.

In conclusion, and it is something that the lawyer of the Almodóvar & Jara buffet, Francisco Almodóvarthere is overuse of medications and there is a lack of surveillance, pharmacovigilanceby the health authorities.

Photo by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA.

And there are numerous diagnostic errors and there is a lack of more health professionals (but who have other more comprehensive and preventive). In the end, when consultation does not have enough time To care for us, the pill is the cheapest and the pharmaco-monitoring is minimal, they prescribe us things that then do not closely monitor what use we give them.

The iatrogenesis, the drug damage and, in general, health systems, is served.

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