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Adjunctive Therapies to the Adjustment

Kim Christensen, DC, DACRB, CCSP, CSCS

European Antibiotic Use on the Increase

A recent study indicates that antibiotic use has severely increased in several European countries, despite the average cost of the antibiotics more than doubling. The most rapid growth of antibiotic use was for "recently introduced drugs or drugs that are still being heavily promoted by their manufacturers."

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Increase in Antibiotic Use from 1980 to 1991

England - 45.8%

France - 65%

Germany (West) - 78%

--------------------------------------- Davey PG, Bax RP, Newey J, Reeves D, Rutherford D, Slack R, Warren RE, Watt B, Wilson J. Growth in the use of antibiotics in the community of England and Scotland in 1980-93. BMJ 1996;312:613.

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August 1996
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