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Article: Agency requests review of drug marketing: ; PEIA director has questions about Claritin
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- March 17, 2001
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DAILY MAIL HEALTH REPORTER
The Public Employees Insurance Agency has asked state Attorney
General Darrell McGraw to review the way the makers of Claritin
market the prescription drug. PEIA spent $873,970 in the latter six
months of 2000 on Claritin products for those it insures, said Tom
Susman, director of the agency.
That ranks the antihistamine as one of the top five most
expensive drugs for PEIA.
But Susman wonders if PEIA members get their money's worth.
"It may not be the wonder drug everyone makes it out to be,"
Susman said.
Susman referred McGraw to a recent New York Times Magazine
article about the drug: "Claritin and Schering-Plough: A
Prescription for Profit."
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