# Store-Brand Medicine Has the Same Active Ingredient – Stop Paying for the Name

- Source: Money Crashers
- Published: 2026-10-21T14:00:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
- Original: https://www.moneycrashers.com/store-brand-medicine/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/store-brand-medicine-has-the-same-active-ingredient-stop-paying-for-th-41b2d6/

Pharmacists already shop this way. A 2015 study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics found that pharmacists bought name-brand headache remedies just 9% of the time, while the average shopper bought them 26% of the time. The active ingredient is... Source

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