How to Use prescription drug in a Sentence

prescription drug

noun
  • By the way, prescription drug prices have risen a mere 2.2% in the last year.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • PBMs were created in the 1960s as a way to process prescription drug claims.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Democrats this week are renewing their calls to cap prescription drug prices, and Sen. Ron Wyden has found a scapegoat in the cause.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Who's out there fighting for you and trying to lower your prescription drug prices?
    ABC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • In the House, Mr. Welch, 75 years old, was known as one of the most vocal proponents of lowering prescription drug prices.
    Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Look, this past week, this movement to reduce prescription drug prices, that's going to help Democrats.
    ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • One of your doctors may have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices may have gone up.
    CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • One of your doctors could have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices might have gone up.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The point of prescription drugs is to help people improve their quality of life.
    Anna Yeo, STAT, 12 June 2024
  • Democrats hope their new health care, tax and climate law begins to rein in soaring prescription drug prices.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Politicians for years have been making a show of wringing their hands over sky-high prescription drug prices.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The risk of drug interactions and side effects is even greater among the many older adults who take prescription drugs.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Both described how high-cost prescription drugs hurt the ability of their members to live healthy lives.
    Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In May 2020, Tatum O’Neal suffered a massive stroke caused by a prescription drug overdose.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • In 2022, the prescription drug that accounted for the biggest share of Medicare Part D spending was the blood thinner Eliquis.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • This could be a big turning point for Floridians who are shelling out thousands a year in prescription drug costs.
    Sun Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Which prescription drugs will have their prices reduced?
    C. A. Bridges, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • At least one hit was for a prescription drug used to remove excess iron from the body that can cause serious side effects.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Sanders has made tackling the costs of prescription drugs a priority in 2023.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • One of those question marks is whether Democrats will need to make changes to their prescription drug pricing provision that already passed the House.
    Lauren Fox and Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • Modafinil is a prescription drug that can treat narcolepsy.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And nowhere is this more evident than in prescription drug pricing.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Well, 21 May 2024
  • Goldstein died a year later from a prescription drug overdose.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Weighing the prospects In my view, the government’s efforts to cut prices for prescription drugs that Part D enrollees obtain are a step in the right direction.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Slotkin agreed that prices are too high and that the answer is to move supply chains back into the U.S., cut prescription drug costs and taxes for middle-class families and create manufacturing jobs in Michigan.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2024
  • These plans typically expect monthly reinsurance, which means Medicare payments cover part of the costs of prescription drugs when the catastrophic threshold is reached.
    Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Oct. 2024

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