Research Outline

Top Prescription Drugs

Goals

To identify the top 100 pharmaceutical drugs based on sales volume and number of users, along with the number of users and volume of sales both in the US and globally, the number of deaths and hospitalizations caused by those pharmaceuticals in the US, whether they are a recurrent or one-time prescription, the top three most-common side effects, and links to Tweets and Reddit threads about them.

Early Findings