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Article: PRESCRIPTION DRUGS GAIN TRACTION IN CAMPAIGN.(Nation/World)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- October 16, 2000
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Prescription drugs have been potent medicine in this year's presidential campaign and a majority of Americans either take them regularly or have someone in their family who does, an Associated Press poll says.
Nearly six in 10 Americans say they or someone in their family takes such medicines regularly, the poll found. The same proportion consider prescription drugs a ``very important'' issue in their vote for president.
Mary Jane Byrd of Alturas, Fla., said she and her husband have managed to pay for their many prescriptions so far, but ``there will come a time when it will eat up our savings.''
``We're also concerned for a lot of other people ...