Non-24 Sleeping Pill | $15,000 a Month
[caption id="attachment_254" align="alignleft" width="150"] logo created by RKL[/caption] The cash price for a single month of Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ highly advertised “Non-24” sleeping pill averages $15,000. This translates to $500 a night or $180,000 a year for basically a sleeping pill that targets the melatonin receptors in the brain. A four month supply of melatonin readily available without a prescription at any grocery store or pharmacy costs about $6. This drug, more properly known as Hetlioz, gained FDA marketing approval in 2014. That year the cost for one month of Hetlioz was an egregious $7500. By 2017 it rose to in excess of $13,000 and surpassed $15,00 by early 2018. The “Non-24” pill sold as Hetlioz contains a molecule similar to but somewhat different from over-the-counter melatonin preparations. For obvious reasons…