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- Type 1
More than a billion prescriptions are being written by Britain?s doctors every year.
Record numbers taking painkillers, sleeping pills, antidepressants and medication for heart disease and diabetes have helped the figure soar by two thirds in a decade.
More than 2.7 million prescriptions are being written out each day ? equivalent to more than 1,900 every minute, according to NHS data.
Just over a decade ago 617million prescriptions a year were being written.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...s-prescribed-record-1-900-tablets-MINUTE.html
Record numbers taking painkillers, sleeping pills, antidepressants and medication for heart disease and diabetes have helped the figure soar by two thirds in a decade.
More than 2.7 million prescriptions are being written out each day ? equivalent to more than 1,900 every minute, according to NHS data.
Just over a decade ago 617million prescriptions a year were being written.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...s-prescribed-record-1-900-tablets-MINUTE.html