Laxatives

Multum Therapeutic Class Comparison, United States, 2022

Total Prescriptions in (2022)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2022)	Percent Share
Docusate	3,801,798	39.3%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350	1,922,665	19.9%
Senna; Docusate	1,085,886	11.2%
Lactulose	983,709	10.2%
Sennosides	666,134	6.9%
Polyethylene Glycol 3350 With Electrolytes	628,486	6.5%
Bisacodyl	244,752	2.5%
Magnesium	219,466	2.3%
Anhydrous Citric Acid; Magnesium Oxide; Sodium Picosulfate	106,150	1.1%
Psyllium	15,363	0.2%
Methylcellulose	9,125	0.1%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2013-2022. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2024.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Updated Sep 12, 2021

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