Sentences with phrase «for lesser drug»

He also says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

And he says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

Not exact matches

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with FortuFor one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortufor heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

Spending on new drugs for those diseases is expected to rise 7 % in 2018, and it's less due to price hikes as it is for the high prices associated with these specialty therapies.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

Weber says she now spends more time discussing treatment options and less time worrying how she'll pay for MRIs and drugs.

Similarly, the Food and Drug Administration's labeling standards are less onerous for food producers that make fewer than 100,000 units within a 12 - month period.

It's much easier than selling drugs or stealing cars and a lot less risky for the bad guys.»

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

Nor can every product be built for prices the average Joe is willing to risk (for example, the next Tesla automobile), or be brought to market for less than $ 10 million (e.g., the next generation of cholesterol drugs).

Last week, for example, CVS said that prescription drug «hyperinflation» — defined as price increases of more than 100 % and as much as 5,000 % — contributed less than 0.7 % to overall cost growth for its PBM clients.

That could have a domino effect on the other middlemen between Mylan and the patient, such as drug distributors, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmacies, who might also have to settle for less revenue per EpiPen sale.

In the early hours of Monday morning, French drug giant Sanofi said it would buy hemophilia drugmaker Bioverativ, a Biogen spinout that is less than a year old, for $ 11.6 billion.

Currently, they pay less than developed countries for drugs, so companies don't make as much money there.

But Marathon also decided to price the drug, which is available for less than $ 1 per pill in Canada as a steroid, at $ 89,000 per year.

For patients younger than 60, with a comparably high number of comorbidities, female patients have less diagnoses but take more drugs than males.

Perhaps that's one reason the Sinaloa cartel has the reputation for being focused more on the business of drug trafficking and less on violence than rival cartels.

If the drug companies» prices for a large chunk of Californians was pegged to the Veterans Affairs prices, that argument goes, then the companies would have less incentive to give the VA a sharply discounted price.

The dispute involves the drug Zarxio, an alternative that Sandoz developed to compete with Neupogen that sells for about 15 percent less than the original product.

U.S. health regulators on Tuesday granted accelerated approval for Pfizer Inc's immuno - oncology drug Bavencio to treat advanced bladder cancer, marking the second approval in less than two months for the treatment developed along with Germany's Merck KGaA.

He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

The suit contended that the companies did so by inflating the published average wholesale price of the drug, giving free samples to doctors knowing they would charge patients and insurers for them, and giving incentives to doctors so that they would prescribe Lupron instead of less costly alternatives.

But it seems everyone from James Clapper, to Louis Lerner, to Eric Holder, Susan Rice etc. etc. seems to be constantly contradicted or exposed as being less than truthful, whether it's IRS Targeting, tapping journalists, blaming Benghazi on a video, the existence of WMDs, a search for yellow - cake Uranium, who ordered Fast and Furious putting automatic guns in the hands of Mexican drug - lords, drone strikes, or... the nature of PRISM.

Recently, the patents on a slew of blockbuster drugs — like Lipitor, which fights cholesterol, and Plavix, which prevents blood clots — have expired, paving the way for less expensive versions.

(Reuters)- Acorda Therapeutics Inc (ACOR.O) will cut nearly 20 percent of its workforce as part of a cost reduction plan, the company said on Wednesday, less than a week after losing certain patents for its multiple sclerosis (MS) drug, Ampyra.

«There is less of a clear road to market than for a heart drug or a cancer drug,» Newman said.

One of the clearest answers seems to be that it's gotten harder to use bitcoin for some of its less savory uses, such as dodging taxes and buying drugs.

However, lawsuits and allegations suggest that perhaps up to 80 % of Subsys prescriptions were being written for off - label indications, which is a no - no, and that Insys» sales team was being less than forthright in angling physicians toward the drugs» approved indication.

For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics.

It brought a long - desired prescription drug benefit to Medicare for the first time, at less cost than if the government had paid for it — and indeed, for less money than its own projected budget (last time I checked).

For organised criminals, the profits are huge and the risks are less, compared to drug dealing and other crimes.

Either you need to take more of the drugs those nice doctors prescribe for you or read the koran less.

Create a single payer healthcare system just like they have for House & Senate members so that as a nation we can negotiate less expensive medical costs & prescription drugs and limit the amount any provider / hospital / doctor can be sued to $ 500k.

A religion that restricts lifestyle in a variety of other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use than a religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has determined that lifers released prior to 1995 have the lowest recidivism rate of any group of offenders — less than one - third the rate of property or drug offenders, for instance.

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful

Six hundred thousand people were arrested in this country last year for possessing or selling marijuana, a drug most authorities regard as less harmful - than alcohol.

In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte's extreme war on drugs has lasted for less than two years, and it's accounted for the deaths of at least 12,000 individuals — 2,555 at the hands of police.

Secondly, while attention has been understandably focused on the result that the greatest increase in overall mortality occurred among white Americans with a high school degree or less, Case and Deaton's results show that death from suicide and drug poisoning for white Americans with BA degrees or some college also increased for the middle - aged, 45 - 54 category.

Coffee farmers who receive a higher price for their quality coffee are also less likely to exploit their land for other purposes — whether it is turning to less environmentally - friendly but higher paying crops (including drugs), logging, or pasture.

Vega Essentials is tested to ensure every batch results in less than 20ppm for gluten, which is recognized by Health Canada, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization as the gluten - free threshold.

What I am saying is that we have athletes all over the country that lose far less time for drugs, weapons, assault, taking money, academic fraud, etc..

Plenty of athletes were suspended with ten times less traces of the drug canelo popped for during the first test..

But while it is true that Terry, both on and off the pitch, has a far from glittering behavioural record, Ferdinand himself, in football terms, is scarcely a saint, having as you well remember been suspended for no less than eight months for «forgetting» to take a drugs test at the Manchester United training ground.

For example, in one study with paroxetine (Paxil), the baby got less than 0.3 % of the drug for each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per daFor example, in one study with paroxetine (Paxil), the baby got less than 0.3 % of the drug for each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per dafor each kilogram of his weight than the mother did (the mother got over 300 micrograms per kg per day, whereas the baby got about 1 microgram per kg per day).

Children whose parents talk to them regularly are at much less risk for experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.

Today there are less than 35 dyes approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.

Moms have fewer drugs or no drugs and experience less interventions and complications which means less risk of side effects for mom and baby