The inexplicable rise of medication prices.

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.