"What's this made out of? Gold?"

How many times have you heard this phrase?

No, my fabulous pharmacy friends, these items are often considerably MORE expensive than gold… we're talking Americium expensive.

For comparison, the price of Ridaura — a gold salt in capsule form — is $295.79 for 60 caps.*

In no particular order:

1. Zyvox (linezolid): $1,546.78 for 20 tablets.
2. Cocaine HCl 135mg: $1,144.80 for 100 tablets
3. 1L of normal saline: $100**
4. Casodex (bicalutamide): $519.76 for 30 tablets.
5. Enbrel (etanercept): $7,500/ounce.
6. Lamisil (terbinafine): $435.84 for 30 tablets.
7. OxyContin 80mg: $662.31 for 90 tablets. (Street value is approximately $7,200 for these same 90 tabs).
8. Aldara (imiquimod) cream: $268.38 for 12×1 gram packets.
9. Vancocin: $651.85 for 20 pulvules
10. Iressa (gefitinib): $2,127.35 for 30 tablets
11. Gleevec (imatinib): $3,563.26 for 30 tablets.

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* All prices are AWP.
** Except this one.