Balon Richard
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Anesthesiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA. E-mail:
Ann Clin Psychiatry. 2018 Aug;30(3):165-166.
Prescription medications are now the fastest-growing medical costs. Prices of brand name medications are exorbitant. An example is long-acting injectable aripiprazole, which costs more than $2,400 for a single injection in the United States, while in Canada this cost is less than $500 and in Turkey it is approximately $150. That brings the annual cost to use this medication in the United States to approximately $30,000.
处方药如今是增长最快的医疗费用项目。品牌药价格过高。长效注射用阿立哌唑就是一个例子，在美国单次注射费用超过2400美元，而在加拿大该费用不到500美元，在土耳其约为150美元。这使得在美国使用这种药物的年费用约为3万美元。
