Americans take alarming rate of prescription drugs

According to this article at ABC News, the number of Americans on prescription drugs has reached an alarming level. An alarming amount of men, women and children are on pills:

--Two out of every three women twenty or older

--One out of every four teenagers

--52% of adult men

--Three out of four people over the age of 65

Dr. Robert Epstein of New Jersey made this claim:

"Honestly, a lot of it is related to obesity," he said. "We've become a couch potato culture (and) it's a lot easier to pop a pill" than to exercise regularly or diet.”

However, an up side to the USA’s pill popping culture is the fact that medicine has made previously fatal diseases such as AIDS and some cancers into chronic diseases instead of fatal.