[Pharmwaste] RE: Record 4.02 Billion Prescriptions in US in 2011

[Gilliam, Allen]

If anyone, I'd bet Dr. Mireles is graphing this trend.  I'm thinking of one of his presentations, where I think he mentioned the trend is now exponential.  I'd like to see a graph of prescriptions written over the last ten, maybe twenty yrs if the data was being tracked that long ago.
Allen Gilliam
ADEQ State Pretreatment Coordinator
From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Tenace, Laurie
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 2:14 PM
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Subject: [Pharmwaste] Record 4.02 Billion Prescriptions in US in 2011

Pardon any cross posting. I thought this data might be interesting to Pharmwaste members.
Laurie


Record 4.02 billion prescriptions in United States in 2011

People in the United States took more prescription drugs than ever last year, with the number of prescriptions increasing from 3.99 billion (with a cost of $308.6 billion) in 2010 to 4.02 billion (with a cost of $319.9 billion) in 2011. Those numbers and others appear in an annual profile of top prescription medicines published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

Journal Editor-in-Chief Craig W. Lindsley analyzed data on 2011 drugs with a focus on medications for central nervous system (CNS) disorders. So-called antipsychotic medicines - including those used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome and some forms of depression - ranked as the fifth most-prescribed class of drugs by sales. Antidepressants, for conditions that include depression and anxiety, ranked No. 7.
For more details see, http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=223&content_id=CNBP_030644&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=a606ceb0-866f-4635-96f3-def3a5bebd3e

Beth Eckl
Director, Environmental Purchasing Program

Tel 866.598.2240
beckl at practicegreenhealth.org<mailto:beckl at practicegreenhealth.org>
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