How to Use prescription drug in a Sentence
prescription drug
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Which prescription drugs will have their prices reduced?
—C. A. Bridges, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024
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Concrete benefits such as lower prescription drug prices will matter very much to voters.
—Julian Zelizer, CNN, 29 July 2022
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Walgreens and other prescription drug distributors have faced a slew of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.
—Juliet Williams, ajc, 10 Aug. 2022
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The package commits hundreds of billions to fight climate change, lower prescription drug prices and would raise some corporate taxes.
—Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
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Despite advocates’ pleas, the policy is set to be ignored at the most critical juncture for the Medicare prescription drug benefit in two decades.
—Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
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And that was the parliamentarian’s decision on the prescription drug benefit.
—NBC News, 7 Aug. 2022
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Harris is slated to deliver her own speech in North Carolina on Friday, proposing further ways to lower costs of prescription drugs.
—Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2024
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Who's out there fighting for you and trying to lower your prescription drug prices?
—ABC News, 6 Nov. 2022
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In the House, Mr. Welch, 75 years old, was known as one of the most vocal proponents of lowering prescription drug prices.
—Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
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Look, this past week, this movement to reduce prescription drug prices, that's going to help Democrats.
—ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
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One of your doctors may have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices may have gone up.
—CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
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One of your doctors could have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices might have gone up.
—Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022
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The point of prescription drugs is to help people improve their quality of life.
—Anna Yeo, STAT, 12 June 2024
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Democrats hope their new health care, tax and climate law begins to rein in soaring prescription drug prices.
—Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
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The risk of drug interactions and side effects is even greater among the many older adults who take prescription drugs.
—Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2024
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Both described how high-cost prescription drugs hurt the ability of their members to live healthy lives.
—Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
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In May 2020, Tatum O’Neal suffered a massive stroke caused by a prescription drug overdose.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
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In 2022, the prescription drug that accounted for the biggest share of Medicare Part D spending was the blood thinner Eliquis.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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This could be a big turning point for Floridians who are shelling out thousands a year in prescription drug costs.
—Sun Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022
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At least one hit was for a prescription drug used to remove excess iron from the body that can cause serious side effects.
—Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
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Sanders has made tackling the costs of prescription drugs a priority in 2023.
—Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
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The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
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The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 June 2024
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The average American girl born in 2019 will take prescription drugs for more than half her life.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
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Modafinil is a prescription drug that can treat narcolepsy.
—Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
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And nowhere is this more evident than in prescription drug pricing.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Well, 21 May 2024
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Goldstein died a year later from a prescription drug overdose.
—Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
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Weighing the prospects In my view, the government’s efforts to cut prices for prescription drugs that Part D enrollees obtain are a step in the right direction.
—Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
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In the kitchen, volunteers were busy cleaning the prescription drug containers.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
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Biden took credit for lowering prescription drugs, and capping the cost of insulin for seniors on Medicare to $35 a month.
—Deirdre Walsh, NPR, 8 Mar. 2024
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