Word: generically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Gaylord Nelson. It is just that, he claims, regardless of how much it costs and whether it carries a famous brand name. Nelson goes further: he believes that prescription drugs for serious illnesses should be dispensed, not under a manufacturer's trademark name, but under the "generic" (common chemical) name, which usually carries a lower price tag. Whether generic and brand-name drugs are really medically equivalent has been debated before Nelson's Senate Monopoly Subcommittee for almost two months now. So far, no witness or Senator has been able to provide a flat answer-because none...
...medicine and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Burack starts from the premise that too many drugs cost too much because they are prescribed and dispensed under brand names, whereas the identical chemicals, meeting the same U.S. Government standards of purity and potency, are available for less under their generic names. Drug by drug, Dr. Burack lists many of the most widely used medications, gives their brand names and lists the prices charged for them. For example, he cites penicillin G, sold by E. R. Squibb & Sons as Pentids at a price to the druggist...
Nonequivalent. Like the lay witnesses, Senator Nelson accepted the claim that a generic-named product, provided it meets Government standards, is exactly the same drug as the brand-name item. Sometimes it is, but not always. Four eminent research physicians in Chicago, headed by famed Anesthesiologist Max S. Sadove, have carefully compared many "generic equivalent" drugs for years and found great differences in the effects on patients. One notable example involved an anesthetic; a cheaper, generic-named form simply did not anesthetize in some cases, and in others the effect wore off too soon. Besides potency and purity, there...
Most druggists do not carry these generic equivalents. As a pharmacist in the Square said, "No one asks for them. So why should we stock them?" But the generics can be bought, mainly at larger drug stores in Boston...
Nembuol is really a moderate example of these price inequities. Medicate. a brand name adrenal steroid, sells for $170.00 per 1000, yet a generic equivalent can be bought from any of 12 reliable companies for less than $12.00. One of them sells it for $7.95. Peptids are potassium penicillin G tablets sold by Squibb for $6.72 per 100. but 17 firms sell pen G for $2.00 or less. And that is one generic equivalent that most druggists stock. Colace, an anti-constipation drug made by Mead Johnson, sells for $45.79 per 1000. But eight firms sell the generic, dioctyl sodium...