Doctor and Co-founder of Cochrane Collaboration says Properly Prescribed Drugs Kill 100,000 a Year in U.S.
Many of our most commonly used drugs, from painkillers to antidepressants, are dangerous and are killing us off in large numbers, says a leading researcher. Peter Gotzsche, a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, the world's foremost body in assessing medical evidence, estimates that 100,000 people in the United States alone die each year from the side-effects of correctly used drugs.