But as the Mexican cartels face new obstacles from law enforcement, local drug lords are now positioning themselves more strongly in Central America as shipments via land have become their primary choice of drug distribution.
"The goal for treatment and the choice of individual drug must be personalized depending on the patient, " says Vivian Fonseca, the ADA's president for science and medicine and chief of endocrinology at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, in New Orleans.
But it was blamed when one of its products, Resistol, became the drug of choice for glue-sniffing children in Central America.
With the invention of the gas-fueled automobile in 1901, black gold became the drug of choice, and its ascent marked the coming of Big Oil.
Anti-Mafia prosecutor Pierluigi Vigna said that cocaine had surpassed heroin as drug of choice for smugglers.
As the focus shifts to growth hormone, it's raising questions about this apparent drug of choice.
There are other antibiotics that can treat anthrax, but Cipro has become the drug of choice.
It was still the club drug of choice in London last summer, says Fiona Measham, of the University of Lancaster.
Likewise, my exploits into the fantastical universes of Tolkien and his spiritual successors have accompanied me since childhood, and will remain my literary genre-drug of choice.
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And so, like Deadheads 40 years before them (but with espresso as their drug of choice), a new tribe has formed to follow the route from Sun Valley to Aspen to Austin to Switzerland.
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And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.
Medicare Part D provides premium support payments to seniors, which they use to purchase the private prescription drug coverage of their choice.
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Yet it seems that banning or over-regulating this newest drug-of-choice is like trying to ban youth itself, or at least the universal desire to hold on to it.
Two trials, published in the Lancet medical journal, compared the effectiveness of alemtuzumab with a first-choice drug, interferon beta-1a.
He said he thought the drug would be most useful for patients for whom standard treatment had failed and in a "minority" of patients as a first-choice drug.
The choice of purification methods and the source of the drug will determine the nature and amount of contaminants in the final medicine. (Nothing is ever 100% pure.) Moreover, protein folding, various kinds of enzymatic modifications and impurities inevitably introduce variation, sometimes with unexpected results.
Faced with the choice of setting tighter limits on Congressional power or upholding a national scheme of drug-enforcement laws, Scalia voted for law enforcement.
It could establish RAD firmly as the agent of choice for those who have failed Pfizer 's Sutent, the drug mostly commonly used for initial kidney cancer therapy.
Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal, given the proportion of pharmaceutical revenues now generated by biologic products traditional generic drug manufacturers have little choice but to pursue biosimilar development.
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They also state that HRT should not be the first treatment of choice for the long-term prevention of osteoporosis in women over the age of 50, despite the success of the drug in treating the condition.
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