by Monty Self | Jan 27, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Americans spent over $335 billion on prescription drugs in 2018 compared to $30 billion in 1980, according to the Congressional Budget Office. This compels us to ask why there has been a $305 billion increase in less than 40 years. The simple answer is that it is...
by Monty Self | Jan 26, 2023 | Opinion
The median annual price for new drugs approved in 2022 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was $222,003, according to a Reuters report published January 5. This is a decades-long trend, as detailed in a June 2022 report published by JAMA Network. In 2008, the...
by Michael Chancellor | Apr 23, 2021 | Opinion
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is April 24. While Take Back Day is focused on clearing out opioids from the home that are no longer needed or expired, the annual observance is also an opportunity to clean out other...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 13, 2019 | News
Around 34 million adults in the United States know someone who has died in the past five years as a result of not having funds to pay for treatment, according to a Gallup report published Nov. 12. This represents 13.4% of the adult population. “These results are not...
