Some generic drugs have had eye-popping price spikes

[TexasTowelie]

Pharmacist Larry Cowan can flip through his records and spot the generic drugs that have taken big price jumps in the past year or so.

There’s digoxin, a heart medicine that he used to buy for pennies a pill.

“Now the price is close to 10 times that,” said Cowan, owner of Glenview Professional Pharmacy in Richland Hills.

There’s doxycycline, a decades-old antibiotic that went on the Food and Drug Administration’s shortage list in 2012 and became the poster child for generic price spikes. Cowan said a tablet of doxycycline went from about 6 cents in late 2012 to $3.65 in late 2013, a 6,100 percent increase.

More at http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/19/5748846/some-generic-drugs-have-had-eye.html?rh=1 . (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

[customerserviceguy]

1. Have the prices also jumped

at Canadian pharmacy websites?

[napi21]

2. WHY? I can understand some increases due to increases

in raw materials and having to buy new dies & such, but 6,100% is inexcusable! Just because the big boy lost their patent doesn't excuse price gouging!

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Holy hell

that is my wife's pharmacy.

On edit:It is North Richland Hills. RH doesn't extend over this far.

[DirkGently]

4. What's going on there?

[McCamy Taylor]

5. I wrote this last month about Doxycycline and how the poro can't afford pneumonia treatment.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024635542

Surprised the Star Telegram has noticed. One of their employees must have gone to pick up some doxy and was horrified at the price.

[Wilms]

6. ^