Study Finds Innappropriate Drug Prescriptions Wasting Millions, Raising Health Risks

A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established. In this case, prescription drugs that might cost as much as $20 to $25 a day were being widely used to treat problems for which they were not FDA-approved.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on March 8th, 2009