Sentences with phrase «total number of drug»

If he had been referring to the total number of drug overdoses, his claim would have been fine.

Not exact matches

That number is based on prescriptions by morphine milligram equivalents, a metric that takes into account the strength and dosage of drugs, but the total number of filled opioid prescriptions also dropped by 10.2 % per month, according to the report.

«The number of protein functions that are currently targeted by drugs is incredibly small compared to the total number of protein interactions that could be targeted for therapeutic benefit,» says Geoffrey Wahl, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory.

Introduction of 9 - 12 month courses of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis therapy will increase the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the total number of anti-tuberculosis drugs during the course of treatment and save funds that can be used to treat more patients.

Despite the weak predictive value of Total and LDL cholesterol, people with elevated numbers are often instructed to lower cholesterol by any means necessary... including a low - fat diet (which doesn't work) and statin drugs.

Yet the drugs have been prescribed to that population in very high numbers (in June 2005, as I've reported before, the International Review of Psychiatry estimated that the total amount prescribed in the U.S. alone has been to upwards of 67.5 million people, almost one quarter of the general population).

Also during 1994 to 1995, the total number of illicit - drug users in the United States — an estimated 12.6 million people — did not increase significantly.