[Pharmwaste] Responding to "Measuring the amount...."
David Stitzhal
stitzhal at fullcircleenvironmental.com
Wed Feb 21 14:12:35 EST 2007
Hi Jennifer.
In quick response to your list-serve posting about responding to the
MN legislator, I thought I would forward the following links and data
gathered by our team.
How and whether we can use this information to determine amounts in
waterways is a whole other discussion, and a model that should be
built.
Total Retail Sales 2005 (traditional drug stores)
* Year end 2005 sales for all traditional drug stores (chain &
independents) reached an estimated $174.2 billion, up 4.1% from 2004:
(from http://www.nacds.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=507 )
(Lots of interesting data here. Note the "average prescription
price" information. That alone could keep statisticians, model
builders and prognosticators of projection busy for some time.)
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Total Sales for Retail Rx Drugs
from
http://statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgets&subcategory=Prescription+Drugs&topic=Total+Sales+for+Retail+Rx+Drugs
United States
$170,814,580,325
Rank: 24
Washington
$2,850,045,651
Let us know what approach you take.
Best.
Stitzhal
PH:ARM (Pharmaceuticals from Households: A Return Mechanism)
206-723-0528
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