[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 139 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H6232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE GENERIC DRUG MARKET

  (Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, we all saw this past week 
as the press reported on a drug that was raised from $13.50 a tablet to 
$750 a tablet. If you spend about 60 seconds with a physician or a 
pharmacist, you will find this has been going on for a couple of years 
now.
  Very common drugs, Narcan, that our first responders use, and digoxin 
and nitroglycerin that our heart patients use, nitroglycerin has gone 
from 8 cents a tablet to $8 a tablet over the last couple of years. The 
same thing has happened with doxycycline, a generic antibiotic that has 
been on the market for years.
  Mr. Speaker, I just want to ask the FDA and the Federal Trade 
Commission to work together to help stop this fleecing of America and 
what is happening in the generic drug market.

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