Sentences with phrase «over drugs»

And it's already in the hot seat over its drug price hikes, so it can't raise prices much further without risking another scandal.

Combined with outrage over individual incidents, is growing concern over drug crime and violence.

Apparently a few people at the party had gotten into a fight over a drug sale gone bad.

The company fills more than 1.3 billion prescriptions annually, giving it negotiating power over drug manufacturers and scale over other retail operations.

But the company was hit by regulatory and political scrutiny in the past year over its drug pricing and its relationship to a mail - order pharmacy, and its stock took a beating.

Second, the group was a target during the most recent presidential election over drug - pricing issues.

The baby was taken from his biological parents over drug concerns, but placed in a nearly fatal situation with a foster mom who was clearly in over her head.

By 2000, pharmaceutical pipelines were filled with «me too» drugs that offered low risk and a quick route to approval, but only marginal improvement over drugs already available.

Trying to get out of credit card debt is like trying to get over a drug addiction.

Can I wax nostalgic even for cold afternoons stepping over drug users?

Legalization of drugs will allow better control over the drug use.

Gordon Brown reportedly reclassified cannabis as a Class B narcotic in a bid to win favour with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and the reaction of tabloids has been a dominant force in the minds of politicians when they refrain from having the debate over drug policy.

The growth of the prison population in the US — currently the largest in the world — and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today.

Two BC NDP candidates resigned over their drug use, while BC NDP candidate Julian West resigned for getting naked in front of minors and a Liberal candidate in Winnipeg was cut loose over her 9 - 11 conspiracy theories.

Bayer said in a statement that it doesn't control the cost for patients at the pharmacy, because copays are determined by insurers and pharmacy - benefit managers — an argument that pharmaceuticals companies have long made when facing criticism over drug prices.

On a more promising note, NIDA also reports that «teenagers may be less likely to suffer from withdrawal symptoms, extreme cravings, and a loss of control over their drug abuse than older individuals.»

And long - simmering tensions between two major British medical journals recently erupted into an all - out editorial war over the drugs.

Faced with controversies over drug warnings and recalls, the drug agency tries to revamp itself.

The newer anxiolytic drugs, such as Alprazolam (Xanax), are much more effective at stopping the phobic behavior and are preferred over drugs such as Acepromazine.

Scarface (1983): In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Even the movie title explains subtitle explains it... «In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.»

FDA commish takes aim at health industry over drug pricing.

The Zetas started to consolidate power and control over drug trafficking operations in Nuevo Laredo under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano, alias «El Lazca» or «Z3.»

For instance, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has locked horns with numerous pharma giants over drug pricing.

The copycat therapy, Erelzi, won't be able to hit the market for at least another year thanks to the ongoing patent spat between Novartis and Amgen over the drug (Amgen claims that Enbrel has IP protection through 2029).

But her underlying point isn't totally invalid — the furor over drug price hikes like Mylan's is forcing legislators and private companies alike to finally confront the issue head - on, and highlighting just how difficult the disparate and largely opaque American medical financing system makes it to address these problems in a serious way.

Pfizer also came under fire over drug price increases including a record $ 107 million fine by U.K. regulators for hiking an epilepsy treatment's price by 2,600 %.

With recent uproar over drug price hikes by Valeant (vrx), Mylan (myl) and Martin Shkreli, healthcare experts have reached a consensus: The system as we know it is officially broken.

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

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Separately, state prosecutors in New York and Massachusetts are investigating Valeant over its drug pricing and programs that provide financial assistance to help patients cover out - of - pocket expenses for their medications.

Although there is no clear consensus regarding the Bitcoin Community's stance over drugs bought via the cryptocurrency, this man's sentencing is one of a plethora of reasons where drug use advocates support legalizing drug sales on the deep web, due to it being much safer and of higher quality than having to trade with street dealers.

Put simply, I believe it's frankly hard to justify holding most individual biotech stocks for especially long periods of time because of the rather limited lifespan of their products, and the political blowback over drug prices in the United States.

Each day I'm concerned about my daughter dead in the ditch somewhere over her drug abuse, my Dad, my Kids salvation.

Police investigate whether four people arrested over a drug bust in the state's central west have links to the Italian mafia.

Jan 04,2016... Major League Baseball, once chided by Congress and fought by the players» association over its drug -...

One of the people Feilding started working with was professor David Nutt, of Imperial University, whose own experience of clashing with authorities over drug research came to a head in 2009 when he was sacked as chair of the Advisory Council of the Misuse of Drugs for ranking drugs according to the harm they do the user and society.

If you want a quick preview of what happens when society truly loses its mind over drugs, pop down to Lambeth after August 17th, when they'll be imposing a «public spaces protection order» banning....

The idea of a impartial expert class is deceptively attractive but the recent differences over drugs policy between Professor David Nutt and the Home Secretary illustrate the political dangers of trusting experts.

Conducted by Reach and drawing on experts from education and business, the report argues the government and black communities need to promote mainstream careers over drug crime and gang violence.

The home secretary, Alan Johnson, has placed the future of the expert body at the centre of the row over drugs policy in doubt by ordering a swift review of how it operates, the Guardian has learned.

Disagreements between the Government and the ACMD over drugs classification continued, culminating in the dismissal of the ACMD chair, Professor David Nutt, in November 2009, following his frequent public criticisms of the government's drugs policy.

The shape of yesterday's flare - up over drugs policy was predictable: a committee of MPs suggested that the Government should consider the system of drugs decriminalisation deployed in Portugal, only for the Prime Minister to slap them back down.

The MP added that, although the committee «had not reached a settled view» on the decriminalisation of drugs, its members agreed Britain was «fighting a losing battle over drugs policy».

Recent hullabaloo over drug companies paying for ghostwritten medical journal articles — that doctors later sign their names to — has raised questions about a wealth of hidden financial arrangements in the medical research community.

«Our collaboration with scientists at Charles Gerhardt Institute was important to the success of this two - photon activated technique,» said Tamanoi, «which provides controls over drug delivery to allow local treatment that dramatically reduces side effects.»

VanderBeek and his colleagues» findings come after years of tension between eye doctors and Avastin's maker Genentech over the drug's ophthalmic use.

But it is not just MS patients who have been holding their breath over this drug, says Funtleyder.

According to their calculations, drug - sensitive HIV strains tend to dominate over drug - resistant strains when the effective drug concentration is low.