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<div>Hi Jennifer.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<blockquote>Total Retail Sales 2005 (traditional drug
stores)</blockquote>
<blockquote>* 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
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<blockquote>(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.)</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Total Sales for Retail Rx Drugs</blockquote>
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<blockquote>from
http://statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare<span
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>&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgets&subcategory=Prescription+<span
></span>Drugs&topic=Total+Sales+for+Retail+Rx+Drugs
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<blockquote> United States </blockquote>
<blockquote> $170,814,580,325 </blockquote>
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<blockquote>Rank: 24 </blockquote>
<blockquote>Washington </blockquote>
<blockquote> $2,850,045,651 </blockquote>
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<div>Let us know what approach you take.</div>
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<div>Best.</div>
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<div>Stitzhal</div>
<div>PH:ARM (Pharmaceuticals from Households: A Return
Mechanism)</div>
<div>206-723-0528</div>
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