Sentences with phrase «on drug»

According to a Government Accounting Office study, the U.S. Air Force spent $ 3.3 million on drug interdiction, using sophisticated AWACS surveillance planes over a 15 - month period ending in 1987.

Every twenty seconds someone is arrested on a drug charge.

We spend trillions on a drug war that we can NEVER win (or even put a big dent into) while our children get substandard educations and facilities.

Ted was an arty beatnik, grafting on yachts and tripping out on drug highs.

If you're a college football team in, say, Texas, and your school newspaper writes about how some of your players were arrested on drug charges, what's your response?

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

One would not allow alcoholics to have the last word on liquor licensing laws or crack addicts on drug policy.

The reason why the classification is so significant, is because if a drug is labeled «Schedule 1,» that means it is almost impossible to do any sort of legal clinical research on the drug, and no (technically legal) prescriptions can be written.

He says Mexican marijuana imports dropped by 40 percent «because they can't compete with the American quality and the American market... just two states stopping fighting the war on that drug, it has been effective.»

The ever - humble inventor of the drug, Etienne - Emile Baulieu, has called it the «most important invention of the twentieth century» and commented on the drug's «mythic status.»

Many were subjected to «mandatory minimums» that initially aimed to crack down on drug crime.

At a speech in New Hampshire, he said: «If we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time.

«One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug.

Today, with much of the discourse on drug addiction controlled by medical bureaucrats, it is common to speak of addiction as an «equal - opportunity disease» that can «strike anyone.»

[27] The foundation has also given The Insti - tute for OneWorld Health a donation of nearly US$ 10 million to support the organization's work on a drug for visceral leishmaniasis.»

@ MD: yes it's chemical reactions because i can give you a drug and your emotions can go from happy to sad to whatever i choose depending on the drug used.

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

I'll take on the drug dealers [who are also my neighbors] of America ----- you going take me on for that?

Nearly 13 percent, or 12.5 million, of Americans using prescription pain relievers misused them in 2015, he said, citing the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

So, depending on the drug's stage of development, we must apply a probability factor to account for its probability of success.

Of course, putting a price tag on a drug that addresses an unmet need will involve some guesswork.

The market selloff in biotech began last year when Hilary Clinton commented on drug price gouging and the need for increased regulation.

Represented European based biotech company, focused on drug delivery solutions, with respect to its inbound and outbound licensing transactions and those related to the development, manufacture and supply of key components of its technologies.

Be honest, the only reason why we like high drug prices is to bank coin on the drug stocks.

In this case, Bristol - Myers is cutting back on a drug that it acquired in a blockbuster deal to acquire Flexus 3 years ago.

President Trump's speech on drug pricing has been postponed.

Virgin Unite, Richard and the Global Commission on Drug Policy call for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences, and ultimately for all offences.

-- House E&C Committee hearing on the drug supply chain.

President Trump's speech on drug prices was originally scheduled for Thursday, but it has been postponed to a later date.

Rodrigo Duterte's violent crackdown on drug dealers and drug users by his government's forces has left thousands dead

A resident physician in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Malik is an authority on drug policy reform focused on public health.

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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that in 2014 more than 17 million Americans reported using MDMA.

While Mr. Berman accused the benefit managers of being complicit, he said the lawsuit focused on the drug makers because «they are playing the game, and they are the ones who publish the list price.»

An Aransas County Grand Jury indicted Jeffrey Lance Null on a drug charge on February 8.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) raised its rating on that drug company to buy from neutral and named it to its conviction list of favorite stocks.

Rose McGowan is planning to go to trial in Virginia on a drug possession charge, arguing she is innocent of the crime and may have been framed by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

So the smart narcos are preoccupied with what Peter Reuter and Mark Kleiman once referred to, in a classic essay on the drug business, as «the marginal imprisonment risk.»

But you probably know Mr. Shkreli from his company Turing Pharmaceuticals's outrageous increasing of prices on a drug that helps people with compromised immune systems fight parasitic infections.

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

The crackdown on drug pricing is putting the pinch on revenues across the industry.

In an editorial accompanying the new study, Dr. Wilson Compton of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues say policymakers need to understand which parts of medical marijuana laws are tied with positive and negative effects.

But to many Republicans, he's an unreliable ally who is often at odds with traditional conservative ideology on drug policy (he's for medical marijuana), foreign intervention (he opposes most military actions) and government surveillance (he thinks more checks are needed on federal power).

There's been a new transparency push in pharma after a year that tarnished the industry's reputation on drug pricing.

The firm also provided updates on its drug price increases — an issue that CEO Brent Saunders, who has pledged to limit branded price hikes to the single digits, has turned into a pet project.

President - elect Donald Trump sent biopharma stocks into a tailspin Wednesday after asserting that pharma is «getting away with murder» on drug prices during a closely - watched press conference.

People in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe are reportedly clamoring to get their hands on the drug Maria Sharapova used for 10 years and which caused her to fail a drug test during the Australian Open tennis tournament in January.

In January, Mallinckrodt raised its price to $ 36,382 a vial, according to the data provider Truven, but that wasn't far off what it cost back in 2015 when Medicare Part D, a prescription drug program, spent over $ 500 million on the drug, making it one of the top 20 expenses for the program, government data shows.

That billion dollars the government is spending is from Medicare Part D, a program for elderly Americans (not infants) that spent more than $ 500 million on the drug in 2015 alone.

In fact, if you believe Ackman's math, Valeant goes from one of the industry's stingiest companies when it comes to R&D, as critics contend, to one of the biggest spenders on drug research.