Do Americans overuse prescription medications?

[hedgehog]

11. It's not so much a determination of reality, but what people think the reality is,

and how that opinion is influenced by the respondent's state of health. Sick people tend to think they need the meads, healthy people tend to think they don't. Oftentimes, diseases which are chronic and debilitating are not visible to the naked eye.

I inadvertently muddied the waters by mentioning pain medication, since pain medications are often abused by the healthy and denied to the ill.