Canadian researchers calculated that adverse reactions to drugs (ADRs) had become the country's fourth greatest killer, after heart disease, cancer and stroke. Given that adverse drug reactions are notoriously under-reported, and that one should also add in administrative errors, possible adverse reactions and overdoses, ADRs are probably in reality even higher up the killer scale.

The reseachers believed that the statistics would be the same in any industrialised country.

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