Southeast Paying Health Price for High Antibiotic Use by Kim Painter. USA Today. November 13, 2012.
Patients from certain Southern states are twice as likely to be prescribed antibiotics as patients from Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. As a result of the high usage of antibiotics, resistance to infections has grown. In the nation as a whole antibiotic usage dropped 17% between 1999 and 2010. However, the rate of decrease is less in the states that use antibiotics more. Professional groups are uniting to address the overuse of antibiotics.
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