the crum, how common are these medications? >> these medicines are commonly used and having people on multiple medications at the same time is common. particularly when adults are 65 and older. the average prescriptions is 23. >> 23 different prescriptions per person. >> per year. >> after 65. >> on average. and you can imagine with that many drugs being prescribed, plus over the counter medications, the possibility is high. and every year, we have almost 1 and a half million hospitalized, and 100,000 deaths per year, so this is a very very serious health problem. >> dr. alexander, any chance that the more the risk goes up and the drugs you're on, the more likely an adverse effect? >> well, there's no question that as the number of medicines increases, the potential for disease interactions and drug interactions increases exponentially. when you realize that one-third of seniors are on five or more, when you consider all of the combinations of drug interactions or drug-disease interactions we're talking about substantial number

. >> joining us now is benjamin crum, the attorney for michael brown's family.family put out a statement we will put up on the screen for people to read obviously saying the violence is rejected. we reject violence against law enforcement. we have the incident with the stepfather of michael brown. there is protests, change and violence orie oughting. what does the family make of this situation? >> it's tragic, chris. they rejected it yesterday. they will reject all forms of violence in the future. they really want to express their heart felt sympathy. it's tragic. all our hearts break for the families of these police officer, protesters, all the protesters that were heart broken for the deaths of ferguson and staten island, heart broken over the deaths of these police officers, these are a terrible, terrible thing. >> it's easy to dismiss the man who did this. he had a record. his mother said he had things ignored and yes the tone we have seen that has become pervasive, do you think it's time to check that tone for reverend sharpton and leaders to clarify what t