The scheme will let subscribers fill as many prescriptions as they need from a list of generic medicines including an erectile dysfunction drug, hair loss treatment and antidepressant.
$14.99 a month or $139 per year excluding sales tax and discounts for students and recipients of government assistance.
Amazon said the service will cover medications used to treat more than 80 common conditions like high blood pressure, anxiety and acid reflux. The list of medications covered includes the antibiotics amoxicillin and doxycycline, the antifungal nystatin, blood pressure drug losartan and the anti-inflammatory naproxen.
It also includes a series of generic medications used to treat mental health disorders like bipolar, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety, including antidepressants sertraline, venlafaxine, escitalopram and bupropion and antipsychotics quetiapine and risperidone . Erectile dysfunction remedy sildenafil, which is widely known under the brand name Viagra and also used to treat a form of high blood pressure, also made the list, as did finasteride and dutasteride, drugs primarily used to treat enlarged prostates that are also prescribed to combat male hair loss .
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