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Kids Taking More "Designer" Drugs Than Ever

  • October 27, 2004

I'm surprised a pharmaceutical company as large as Medco would want you to know that nearly $1 out of every $10 spent on childrens medications was used for "designer drugs," a dramatic shift in prescription spending, in a study comparing the first six months of 2004 with the same period in 2002. If that number doesn't bother you, consider these: The number of children ages 19 and younger taking "designer drugs" to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has increased 133 percent in the...