How to Use on prescription in a Sentence

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  • Price controls on prescription drugs will hurt patients more than help them.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There will be a cap of $2,000 on what seniors spend on prescription drugs.
    NBC News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That means the $2,000 cap on prescription drugs for seniors would be gone.
    Joe Biden, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Colorado is pioneering a new way for states to crack down on prescription drug costs.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Manchin and Democratic leaders have reached a deal on prescription drugs, but that's it.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
  • Limits on prescription costs that will help millions of citizens.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • People who rely on prescription medications are advised to stock enough to last a few days.
    Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The law also called for penalties on drug companies that raised prices on prescription drugs faster than the rate of inflation.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • Schumer and Manchin reached an agreement only on prescription drug provisions.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
  • Available on prescription, the cream is applied all over the body from the neck down, and left for eight to 14 hours before being washed off.
    Will Barker, TheWeek, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The culprit, in his view, is Americans’ reliance on prescription drugs.
    Paula Span, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure to check their site for limited-time promotions on prescription glasses, designer frames and more.
    Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Price controls on prescription drugs will delay new drug development.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That's why investors want the latest on prescription trends and traction in the psoriasis market.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • The current system of price and market signals on prescription drugs is definitely weird.
    Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 6 July 2022
  • The Florida mother who forced her 3-year-old child to overdose on prescription sedatives has been sentenced to four decades in prison.
    Fox News, 16 July 2022
  • These provisions are likely to cut spending on prescription drugs for millions of seniors on Medicare.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The recent history of efforts to tighten controls on prescription painkillers highlights some of their concerns.
    Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • PBMs also must report details on prescription drug use and spending to most employer health plans.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Focus on prescription users Meta is targeting a large group of users who depend on corrective lenses daily.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The good news is this behind-the-scenes maneuvering can lower overall Medicare spending on prescription drugs.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The crisis at first centered on prescription painkillers that gained more acceptance in the 1990s, and later heroin.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And no one is paying enough attention to Evan, who becomes erratic due to his grief and growing overreliance on prescription pills.
    Jumoke Balogun, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Among those policies are a pledge to cap the cost of insulin at $35 and accelerate price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Before his visit to the Mitchells’ farm, the congressman attended a meeting on prescription drug prices at a union hall in Rockford.
    Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Bressman says Utah should have demanded data on prescription refills up front, not after Doctronic was up and running.
    ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Average annual growth for spending on prescription drugs was 11% in 2025 an increase of more than 3% in one year.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • One of those accomplishments the president spoke about was putting a cap on the amount of money senior citizens will pay on prescription drugs at $2,000 per year.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But the sudden notoriety fed into anxiety, depression, and an unhealthy reliance on prescription drugs.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The new projections are likely to show its growth will be restrained somewhat by a law Biden signed last summer that is expected to reduce the program’s spending on prescription drugs for seniors.
    Alan Rappeport, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023

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