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<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><FONT face=arial,sans-serif>Allen, it's quite alarming, and we're not even including prescription drugs (antibiotics, steroids, etc.) given to livestock in our agricultural industry. This stat supports the figure that Americans consume about 50% of world's production of pharmaceuticals annually (approx $300 billion; global production is about $600 billion). We discussed this at your Region 6 meeting. Of course, counterfeit drugs and illicits are on the rise too. Police departments are reporting more robbery at pharmacies, not for cash but for narcotics.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: "Gilliam, Allen" <GILLIAM@ADEQ.STATE.AR.US><BR>Sent: Sep 17, 2012 8:01 AM <BR>To: "Tenace, Laurie" <LAURIE.TENACE@DEP.STATE.FL.US>, "pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us" <PHARMWASTE@LISTS.DEP.STATE.FL.US><BR>Subject: [Pharmwaste] RE: Record 4.02 Billion Prescriptions in US in 2011 <BR><BR><?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = [default] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 NS = "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" /><ZZZhtml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"><ZZZhead><ZZZmeta content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZmeta content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)" name="Generator"><ZZZ!--[if !mso]>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Allen Gilliam<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tenace, Laurie<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 14, 2012 2:14 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Pharmwaste] Record 4.02 Billion Prescriptions in US in 2011</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">Pardon any cross posting. I thought this data might be interesting to Pharmwaste members.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Record 4.02 billion prescriptions in United States in 2011</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 <I>ACS Chemical Neuroscience</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Please note that my new email address is mirelesmc@gmail.com effective Sept 6, 2012.</pre>