Sentences with phrase «on drugs as»

The popular view of the War on Drugs as a failure is having more effect on politics at the state level.

Society seems to be more dependent on drugs as the panacea for all problems.

In May 2006, Soares, addressing the International Drug Conference in Canada, attacked the War on Drugs as a failure.

During that time I learned from them that even at that time they viewed the war on drugs as unwinnable.

Our neighbors to the north and south see the war on drugs as a failure and legal cannabis as an opportunity.

Not exact matches

As attorney general, Sessions would be responsible for directing U.S. federal prosecutors on federal priorities and overseeing the Drug Enforcement Administration.

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

Durkan echoed a growing consensus in describing Seattle's move as an «important step to right the wrongs [of] the failed war on drugs.»

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a drug.

NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported lower - than - expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.

The advantage of Zymeworks» strategy is that licensing platforms to big pharma entitles it to a combination of cash up front, milestone payments as the clients» research proceeds and potential royalties once one of the drugs developed on the platform reaches the market.

Marino's draft stock had fallen after a disappointing senior season at Pitt, as well as rumors of recreational drug use, rumors which even led Marino's hometown team the Pittsburgh Steelers to pass on selecting him.

The latest clinical trial outsourcing / drug development and manufacturing merger hit on Monday as scientific instrument giant Thermo Fisher announced it would buy drug ingredients maker Patheon for $ 5.2 billion ($ 7.2 billion is you count $ 2 billion in net debt).

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

The World Health Organization, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Heart Association have all recommended reducing consumption of soda as a way to cut down on added sugars.

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 Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

But there were rules — the Food and Drug Administration had to sign off on each protocol, as did the Hutch's own Institutional Review Board.

The New York Times and CBS News, citing unnamed officials briefed on the matter, reported they included overseeing a hostile work environment as the White House doctor, allowed the overprescribing of drugs and drank on the job.

The biotech received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its drug to treat the rare blood cancer acute myeloid lymphoma (AML), which will be marketed as Idhifa, on TuesDrug Administration (FDA) approval for its drug to treat the rare blood cancer acute myeloid lymphoma (AML), which will be marketed as Idhifa, on Tuesdrug to treat the rare blood cancer acute myeloid lymphoma (AML), which will be marketed as Idhifa, on Tuesday.

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

While we wait to see how much Newfoundland is able to extract, note that Ottawa offered two other similarly vague compensation deals to get CETA through: One on drug prices, tied to a lengthening of patent protection, and another to the dairy industry as protection against an increase in duty - free European cheese.

There are legal implications as well: Anyone who wants to get involved in this industry has to take on the reputational risk and the legal risk, because even though numerous states have legalized it, cannabis is still a Schedule I, federally illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

On the surface, Papa seems to have gotten an extraordinarily generous deal to turn around the beleaguered drug company: Not only is his salary more than twice what it was when he was CEO of Perrigo (prgo), a company nearly three times as valuable as Valeant (vrx), it's also especially good considering Valeant's stock price has fallen nearly 67 % since he took over.

As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is crafting a special unit to focus on digital health and tackle thorny issues such as creating an appropriate approval / clearance pathway for mobile medical apps.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

«And as long as that happens, your insurance company is not going to pay your bill if you take a drug and the pharmaceuticals are not going to develop the drugs because if nobody is going to pay for their use, why spend the money on that?»

Heroin was on the decline, as more users switched to prescription drugs for their fix.

Healthcare, for example, was traditionally viewed as a slow burn for investors since it was heavily regulated and contingent on the Food and Drug Administration.

On this side of the 49th parallel, the cash problem isn't so much tax evasion and drug dealing as counterfeiting.

A decade working on Wall Street as a health care analyst had convinced her that the American way of treating illness and inventing new drugs had to change.

He added that the media focuses on examples of individual drug price hikes, it has overlooked the fact that expense of drugs as a proportion of healthcare spending has remained «remarkably constant» over the years.

Last year Dave's sold $ 54 million worth of organic, GMO - free products (the tagline: «Just say no to bread on drugs») to 2,200 stores in the western U.S. and Guam, including the Safeway and Vons chains, as well as to institutional clients.

Prior to Sucampo, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Ambrx Inc., a clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) that was acquired by a consortium led by Fosun Pharmaceutical Group in 2015.

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.

That ruling says businesses may object on religious grounds to offering health services stipulated by the ACA, such as abortion services and fertility drugs.

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

David Acheson, a former official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was brought on as an adviser.

And the story of why the LePeres are now paying as much as their mortgage payment on insulin, even though they have insurance and even though there are competing drugs on the market, is really the story of what has happened to the healthcare industry in America since the start of the century.

Although the offer of DisposeRX for free is coming as a result of the opioid epidemic, the product works on any type of prescription drug, according to Holaday.

Medellin cartel chief Pablo Escobar had his life snuffed out on December 2, 1993, but his reputation as a brutal and prolific drug trafficker has lived on.