Cocaine, Britain's favourite hard drug, manufactured by peasants in a war zone, marketed by celebrities in nightclubs.
He said the findings would impact on drug policies, because they suggested reducing or eliminating the availability of cannabis would be "unlikely to make a dent" in the hard drug problem.
Although casual hard-drug consumption may be dropping, the number of hard-core hard drug users those most directly associated with the private and collective misery of drugs has scarcely budged since the war began.
But, for all their willingness to make such experiments, the Swiss still clamp down hard on drug users and dealers.
That country has a lower prevalence of hard-drug addicts per head (1.6 per 1, 000) than France (2.4), Britain (2.6), Italy (3.0) and Switzerland (5.0).
As I have consistently mentioned, I believe that when it comes to drug trafficking, we have to take a hard stance in fighting drug trafficking while addressing those that have fallen prey to (inaudible) thus becoming drug addicts.
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When the drug began large-scale trials in 1997, Novartis knew that it might be hard to prove the drug was truly effective.
Such a program could easily make it hard to sell the drug at all.
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But despite the hype, the overall economic effects of "soft addictions" pale in comparison with traditional "hard addictions" like drug abuse and alcoholism.
Impoverished North Korea is widely accused of engaging in a range of illicit activities to raise hard cash, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and arms trafficking.
Given this effect, it was always hard to imagine how the drug would have a net benefit to patients.
But a surprising entrant is taking a long, hard look at Isis' drug, previously known only as 301012 and now called mipomersen.
The impact on monthly premiums for prescription drug coverage is hard to calculate, since different plans on the market charge varying premiums.
Jeff Kindler gets to make the hard choice and kill the drug, but why was it still draining resources in the first place?
But he takes a hard line toward people with drug-resistant TB.
It can be hard to admit that one drug that you have been giving to a lot of patients may not be doing much of anything at all.
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Sure, as former Pfizer research chief John LaMattina writes, drug development is very hard.
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But pinning a website to a point in the real world is difficult, and drug regulators find it hard to discipline offshore operators.
The issue of succession in Pyongyang is somewhat immediate due to the fact that Kim himself is thought to have suffered serious health problems over the past decade, no doubt worsened by his affinity for hard liquor and a probable past drug habit.
Fat is where it's at, but the drug industry has an awfully hard time getting there.
It'd be hard for you to believe that a drug like Gleevec, which is a drug for cancers.
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Poorer regions do fewer tests and neglect hard-to-reach groups like drug users.
This might be excusable if Merck hadn't been the very company that launched Vioxx--and should have learned the hard lessons about the unexpected risks that drug taught.
The young, brash Mr McInerney gained a notorious reputation in gossip pages and glossy magazines for his own hard-partying habits, his reported drug use and dramatic private life.
The major issue is that the penalties for poaching are insignificant (from as little as 4, 000 Kenyan shillings) and poachers work in complex networks comparable to drug cartels that are very hard to police.
The company, he said, reports to a shadowy Communist Party agency called Office 39, which gathers foreign hard currency for Mr. Kim through drug trafficking, counterfeiting, arms sales and other illicit activities.
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He says that since the 1970s there has been a movement in the US advocating that marijuana should be legalised, which began with the medicinal use of the drug because it "was hard to argue against on compassionate grounds when people suffering from cancer and Aids might get relief from their pain".
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