How to Use prescription drug in a Sentence

prescription drug

noun
  • Who's out there fighting for you and trying to lower your prescription drug prices?
    ABC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Look, this past week, this movement to reduce prescription drug prices, that's going to help Democrats.
    ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • One of your doctors may have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices may have gone up.
    CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • One of your doctors could have fallen out of network or your prescription drug prices might have gone up.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Both described how high-cost prescription drugs hurt the ability of their members to live healthy lives.
    Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In May 2020, Tatum O’Neal suffered a massive stroke caused by a prescription drug overdose.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sanders has made tackling the costs of prescription drugs a priority in 2023.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 21 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Modafinil is a prescription drug that can treat narcolepsy.
    Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Goldstein died a year later from a prescription drug overdose.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • 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
  • In the kitchen, volunteers were busy cleaning the prescription drug containers.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Your costs will depend on your insurance choices, your health, your prescription drugs and your city.
    Kate Ashford Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The married couple appeared on the hit Bravo show and are now accused of using cast members’ names to obtain prescription drugs.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The insurer covered about 13.5 million people last year, not counting the stand-alone prescription drug plans.
    Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • What the October ad from telehealth startup Hone Health doesn’t say is that the unidentified man is an actor who has never used the prescription drug.
    Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Those that don't clear up with home treatment may require prescription drugs or in-office therapies.
    Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business.
    Haleluya Hadero, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The diabetes medicine would join a list of about 350 generic drugs that the online prescription drug company now offers at discounted prices.
    Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • While a White House official pointed to agenda items like lowering prescription drug costs and $35 insulin, the specifics of Biden’s second-term agenda are hazy.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Mundane commercials — cellphone games, Toyota, some prescription drug hawked by Queen Latifah — break up the pursuits, so that each feels like a play with acts.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • As many as 9,000 Americans die each year after receiving the wrong prescription drugs or doses.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Ditto the fact that people aren’t quite yet seeing the infrastructure improvements or the lower prescription drug costs.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The company sells generic prescription drugs and boasts more than 2 million members.
    Josh Wenzell, STAT, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In choosing Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans, seniors often look at star ratings to guide them.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022

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