Prescription drugs high cost

Although concerns about the high cost of prescription drugs and the lack of access to needed drugs dominate much of the discussion, others point to the opposite problems. They say the benefits of prescription drugs are overstated or overhyped. The public has too much access to prescription drugs... 

The popularity of prescription drugs shows not just in high use by humans but also by their pets. Drugs for animals, although not prescribed as they are for humans, cost almost 10 billion a year and treat problems like nausea, separation anxiety, depression, obesity, and dry eyes. 

The cost of drugs is almost invariably held up as being too high. It is a brave or foolhardy person who says The U.S. should spend more, not less, on prescription drugs, which is what PhRMA s president Dr. Alan F. Holmer said in his address to the Commonwealth Club on April 24,2002. Could he be right ... 

The cost and utilization of prescription drugs are at an all-time high in both of the world s major pharmaceutical markets, i.e., the US and Europe. Recent estimates... 

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