The alarmist prediction that
cheap available drugs could lead to an addiction rate of 75 percent of regular users simply ignores the fact that 35 to 40 million Americans are already using some drugs and that only 3 percent become addicts.
Not exact matches
Patents will be extended, making
cheaper generic
drugs less
available.
As Business Insider notes, «Based on seven major illegal
drug data surveillance systems, the researchers found that heroin, cocaine and marijuana became significantly
cheaper and more potent from 1990 to 2007 (the last year for which data is publicly
available).»
However, the survey also revealed consistently more sympathetic attitudes to the HIV / AIDS pandemic in developing world countries than in the UK, for example, almost seven out of ten (69 %) agree that rich countries should ensure that
drugs to treat HIV / AIDS are
cheap and
available to all people in poor countries.
The
drug is very
cheap — as little as 35 US cents — and is often
available over the counter.
But while the deals may be beneficial to some extent, in that they might save courts and administrative bodies, such as patent offices, time and effort, they allow branded
drug firms to charge monopoly prices and in a typical deal there may be a two to three year delay in a
cheaper version becoming
available.
«Oligonucleotide - based
drugs are already
available, and it's very possible that our method could be used to produce purer and
cheaper versions of these
drugs,» says Dr Björn Högberg.
As a general rule, work with cancer cell lines is an easy and
cheap way to investigate biological concepts, test
drugs and validate methods, mainly because cell lines are
cheap compared to animal research, readily
available, easy to grow, and there are few concerns around ethics and informed consent.
WHAT: When Texas electrician Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey) is diagnosed as HIV - positive and given only 30 days to live, he discovers that
cheaper and more effective
drugs are
available in Mexico.
But because antibiotics are relatively
cheap and widely
available we currently take these extraordinary
drugs for granted.
Generic
Drug is a cheaper duplicate of a brand name drug with the same active ingredients, producing the same effect, available when the brand name drug is no longer patent protec
Drug is a
cheaper duplicate of a brand name
drug with the same active ingredients, producing the same effect, available when the brand name drug is no longer patent protec
drug with the same active ingredients, producing the same effect,
available when the brand name
drug is no longer patent protec
drug is no longer patent protected.