“Take two of these and call me in the morning …”
That’s advice Palmetto State residents are obviously taking … along with an disproportionately high number of prescription drugs.
South Carolina is the third “most medicated” state in the nation according to a study released earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
In fact, South Carolinians fill an average of 16.4 prescriptions per year, ranking behind West Virginia (17.7) and Alabama (16.7). The national average is just over 11 per capita prescriptions annually.
While we’d love to joke about how chronically depressed (or chronically embarrassed) our citizens are from decades of failure, the real culprit here is the state’s high obesity rates.
By Liberty For Me December 8, 2009 at 1:43 pm
We should be depressed…Lindsey Graham is our senator.And have you seen the candidates running for governor???….Lord help us
By Ynot December 8, 2009 at 3:28 pm
medicated, until the company says nope, notta, no way.
hahaha
By Truth Seeker December 8, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Why don’t you run Liberty? You seem to have some dandy ideas!
By Kevin Bryant, Registered Pharmacist, SC Senate 3 December 8, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I agree, we are overly medicated.