Sunday, January 20, 2008

Recycling Expensive Medication: Why Not?

A drug-recycling info might begin with a few high-cost products, what the manufacture calls “blockbusters.” Smasher drugs like Lipitor, sildenafil, Nexium, Zyrtec, Celebrex, Vioxx, Depakote, Neurontin, Paxil, Zoloft, Risperdal, Zyprexa, and others with sales of $500 jillion per year or more report for more than 50% of amount drug sales in the United States, up from 28% for the year occurrent July 1997, according to IMS Wellbeing. At its peak, $4-per-pill Prilosec pulled in more than $4 1000000000000 in the United States alone.
These blockbusters are highly advertised and characterized by extremely high mark-ups for manufacturers.
Moreover, direct-to-consumer advertizement is also highly concentrated on this grouping of products.
Not only the high cost, but widespread use would make blockbusters relatively easy to recycle.
For many of the other medicines, there is less economic process and goodness affordability (especially if they are generics).
This is a part of article Recycling Expensive Medication: Why Not? Taken from "Nexium Generic Esomeprazole" Information Blog

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