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medicine's version of using a flamethrower to light a candle.
means prescribing more or stronger drugs than a condition actually needs, often because that is faster than treating the whole patient.
from the term grew teeth in the 1990s and 2000s alongside opioid marketing, when pharma reps pushed doctors to treat pain, anxiety, and boredom with a pill first and a conversation never.
opioid mathus doctors wrote 255 million opioid scripts in 2012 alone
antibiotic wasteup to 30 percent of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary
incentive problemshorter visits reward prescribing over diagnosing
global spreadbenzodiazepine overuse now flagged in uk, france, and japan
for instance
purdue pharma oxycontin — marketed as low-risk in 1996, fueled a us opioid crisis
adhd stimulant surge — us child stimulant scripts rose sharply through the 2010s
antibiotic overuse india — among highest per-capita antibiotic consumption rates worldwide
benzodiazepine long-term use — meant for weeks, often continued for years in elderly patients