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of $49.12 per family in the United States as a whole.
Nationally, nearly $4 billion is being spent per year for prescription drugs alone, not including those dispensed to hospital patients. That is nearly four times as much as was spent 10 years ago, according to the Health Insurance Institute. The increase is attributed to inflation, to the fact that there are more pharmaceutical products on the market and to the fact that the per capita use of drugs has gone up. Geriatrics has much to do with the increased consumption, it is pointed out. Because people over 65 use several times as many medicines as young people do, and because the number of these elderly persons has been rising rapidly, the demand for prescription drugs is greater. Rappahannock County families are spending more than ever, also, for non-prescription drugs. Their annual outlay for these items averages $19.60, it is estimated. On that basis, the overall drug bill-prescription plus nonprescription-amounts to approximately $115,000 a year for the local population.
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