Interesting Fatcs About Prescription Drugs
- The average cost of developing and bringing a new prescription
drug to market is $802 million. It usually takes between 10 and
15 years to develop and bring a new medication to market
- Over 90% of drugs entering clinical trials fail to make it to
the market
- Each year in the United States, more than 160 million prescriptions
are written for antibiotics. Humans consume 235 million doses of
antibiotics annually. It is estimated that 20%-50% of that use is
unnecessary
- 96% of patients don’t ask any questions about their prescriptions
- Improper use of prescription medicines costs the economy over $15
billion per year
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