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"Medicap Pharmacies, walgreens, EVCs, Discount Drug Marts, Eckerds. They look for expansion in the right place, the vicinity of supermarkets and aim at exact demographics, i.e. the middle-income people. In earlier times, the churches dominated the picture. Then the banks came and the insurance companies. Today the drugstores are everywhere. Money, money, money. We all know that the effort to make medications cheaper for the American citizens failed. The results? Today 23% of what Americans spend out of their pockets goes to health care (Health & Human, Services Department study, in Jan 2004)." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The pills had arrived in a walgreens drugstore package with a form letter signed by local physicians. Given these marketing partnerships among pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, and physicians, it is plausible that a health care provider shared Jerry's medical history and address with Parke-Davis, the company that was purchased by Pfizer in 2000 and no longer exists independently. Another troubling fact is that Jerry said he received the letter from Parke-Davis in 1996, before Rezulin was approved by the government in January 1997." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "He could drive down to the walgreens at the busy corner of Highway 6 and First Avenue in Coralville, which was staffed with a pharmacist twenty-four hours a day. Iowans needing to refill prescriptions did not even need to park their cars. Drugstores had drive-through windows, where one could pick up a bottle of pills just like a Big Mac. Many people got their pills without ever leaving their homes. They simply pressed a few keys on the Internet or called a toll-free number and had their pills delivered just like a mail-order purchase from Sears or L.L.Bean." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The new walgreens pharmacy was charging the most at $116.69. The most helpful pharmacist, the one behind the counter at Drug Town, suggested I ask the doctor to write a prescription for forty-milligram pills and then cut the tablet in two, allowing an order of fifteen pills, costing $59.09, to last the month through. With construction rampant on Civic Mills, there was a good chance more fast-food restaurants and gas stations would soon be built." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In 2005 walgreens opened drugstores in America at the rate of one every day. It now had more drugstores than Domino's had pizza kitchens. And it had not stopped its expansion with Des Moines. It was staking out property for new stores in Iowa's more rural areas, anyplace where residents took enough prescriptions to meet its corporate goals. Wal-greens' aggressive expansion plan in Iowa and the rest of the country was very much in line with its corporate credo, which reads in part, "We believe that we can get what we go after." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The tests found phthalates in a baby's teething ring made by Prestige Brands, a Goldberger's Fuzzy Fleece Baby doll and a yellow rubber ducky sold at walgreens.19 In the absence of federal leadership, some US states are acting on their own. California, New York and Maryland introduced legislation to ban phthalates from toys or cosmetics in the 2004-2006 legislative sessions. The chemical industry lobbied extensively against the bills, and none passed. But the push for protective laws continues." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Results is now found at Target and walgreens stores, where it was joined several months later by Worthington's Big Hair collection. Most consumers won't notice the change because die-hard Bloomies customers aren't about to shop for their hair-care or skin-care needs at a drugstore. They will most likely continue to assume that any product sold at an upscale store is better than one sold at a drugstore, even if that product is now selling at a drugstore! Other than the shopping experience and location, there is nothing about the Dream Hair line that is superior to the Results or Big Hair lines." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

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