An estimated 50% of murders are drug related, with people often high on drugs when they are arrested.
Although she had good parenting skills, she was visited by the father when he was high on drugs and ended up rowing with council staff.
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In 1994 she was beaten and robbed by a young black high on drugs and alcohol and fuelled, she supposed, by frustrations much like her own.
Maybe the drugs could be approved for those whose cholesterol is still high on existing drugs.
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Nothing more was said or done until about four years ago when I was put on drugs for high cholesterol.
Arpaio was always tougher on prisoners than he was on crime, but he also immersed himself in a series of high-profile campaigns the war on drugs, reducing cruelty to animals, driving prostitution out of Maricopa.
The deal would seem to cement Astra's focus on cancer drugs after high-profile failures in neurology and cardiovascular disease.
Most violent crimes, such as murder, assault and rape, occur when the perpetrator is either on drugs or drunk, and a high percentage of property crime involves people seeking money to buy drugs and alcohol.
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The market, seeking profit makers with high expectations of high returns on capital and high margins will throw high amounts of capital at these drugs until you turn around and the market has created highflying successes like Genentech and Amgen .
Policing drugs trading on the internet is a high priority, said the board, which is urging governments to set up regulatory controls for online pharmacies.
I'm not even talking about the disastrous war on drugs, the primary reason for the high incarceration rate of young African-Americans, rendering them radioactive to employers for the rest of their lives.
Researchers at Harvard simultaneously led an even bigger study testing the same two drugs and found that those on the high dose Lipitor were far less likely to have new heart attacks, strokes or heart procedures than those on Pravachol.
Given the failure of the War on Drugs, our overflowing prisons, and the high reoffending rate among those leaving prison, such a rethink is long overdue.
For a drug company to keep up its high growth, it must focus on marketing its current line of drugs while at the same time developing new drugs.
The dream of drug developers for years has been to invent new medicines in the manner of biotech hothouse Genentech, now part of Roche, which used cutting-edge biology to develop new kinds of protein and antibody drugs that could mount a high-tech assault on cancer.
Drug giants get long periods of exclusivity on their drugs, during which they can set very high prices.
High on the agenda will be Mexico's mixed record in fighting drugs.
Another possibility is that the study was hobbled because many patients in it had a genetic disease that leads to an extremely high cholesterol level and had been treated for a long time on cholesterol drugs.
The event is co-hosted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Figuring this was an especially high-risk case, Dr. Gay started the baby on three standard antiretroviral drugs at higher, treatment-level doses.
Some hope for Merck and Schering's sales may come from Impact Rx, a prescription data service that bases its predictions on the behavior of a select group of doctors who prescribe high volumes of drugs.
Thursday, 5 November, to consider the results of the high-level segment of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and conclude its consideration of the Report of the Human Rights Council on its Twelfth Special Session.
By June, it will lose patent protection on four drugs--Vasotec and Prinivil for hypertension, Mevacor for high cholesterol and Prilosec, which it shares with AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people), for ulcers.
Michael Jackson died in June from high levels of drugs in his body including the powerful anaesthetic propofol, more commonly used on hospital patients before surgery.
The FDA advisory panel meeting on Monday is widely seen as a test of how high the bar for approval is for cancer drugs.
The irony of them arguing that drugs should be illegal because most violent crimes are committed while high or drunk seems lost on them.
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If the panel's advice is adopted by FDA, it would put hydrocodone on par with prescription painkillers like oxycodone, morphine, and methadone -- drugs with high abuse potential that can lead to severe physical dependence.
High on the list of things not covered in the bill is some mechanism to stem the rising costs of prescription drugs.
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