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.
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).
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.
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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It'd be hard for you to believe that a drug like Gleevec, which is a drug for cancers.
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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 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.
Health officials are worried because the drug-resistant strain is so hard to diagnose.
When problems are recognized by drug safety officers, it can be hard for the message to take hold.
U.S. financial institutions have increasingly been implicated in drug money laundering networks and have been hit hard when they get caught.
My worry is that the bad feelings drug companies have generated by marketing medicines too hard are preventing us from facing facts.
This will cause companies to think long and hard before taking a new CV or other chronic use drug into clinical trials.
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The Commonwealth Games Federation has defended its drug-testing plans and promised to come down hard on any potential cheats.
When there is only one drug available to treat kidney cancer, it is hard for payers to negotiate prices with the innovator companies.
Flumazenil, the drug used to treat Ms. Sumner, is proving hard to come by.
While he was impressed with the results, Pfister says that there is an issue that may make it hard for doctors, patients and insurers to decide how to use the drug: In many cancer centers, patients whose head and neck cancers are of the same severity as those in the trial recieve not only radiation, but also chemotherapy.
Only giant clinical trials measuring hard outcomes like heart attacks, strokes and deaths can tell doctors whether a heart drug's benefits outweigh its risks.
So far little clinical trial data for either drug have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, making it hard to evaluate the drugmakers' claims.
In America, drug firms have done well out of direct-to-consumer promotion since hard-sell television advertising was allowed for prescription drugs in August 1997 (see article).
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It comes down particularly hard on those who supply weapons to offenders who use them to commit violent crimes or drug trafficking offenses, according to the bill's authors.
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