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A recent CNN Health News article asks the question – Are you taking too many medications?  The article tells the story of Alesandra Rain, whose sleeping problem turned into a downward spiral of medications and side effects. At her worst, Alesandra Rain was spending more than $900 a month on prescriptions, seeing 6 specialists, taking 12 different types of medication amounting to about a thousand pills a month, none able to cure her chronic insomnia and depression.  She was slowly losing herself.  When you’re on that many different prescriptions it’s hard to recognize where the pills end and you begin.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. This story happens way too often in America today. In fact, the average American fills 12 prescriptions a year. “I don’t think people really understand the nature of medication; the drugs will, by definition, have some toxic, collateral side effects,”