Anti-Mafia prosecutor Pierluigi Vigna said that cocaine had surpassed heroin as drug of choice for smugglers.
It broke ground by using a children's drama to tackle controversial issues such as drug addiction.
The three defendants in US custody face conspiracy as well as drug possession and distribution charges.
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He said they helped tackle issues such as drug abuse, mental health and teenage pregnancy.
The MRTA used kidnapping and extortion as well as drug trafficking to finance their activities.
But this could be a double-edged sword, as drug companies are swamped with difficult-to-prioritize targets.
Today, the challenge is even more serious as drug cartels and terrorist groups are far more sophisticated.
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In a recent reorganization, Merck has said it is shifting more attention to developing antibodies as drug candidates.
The accused couple, who were in a civil partnership, were described as drug addicts by prosecutor Karim Khalil.
The genes make proteins and these proteins are the starting points for drug design, known as drug targets.
The number was introduced for people to report crimes such as drug dealing, car theft and property damage.
But would a world without lawsuits be as rosy as drug companies think?
And they are becoming more involved in worldwide crime such as drug smuggling, money laundering or just old-fashioned corruption.
Respect for laws has deteriorated as drug trafficking and related violence continue to rage out of control in northern Mexico.
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As drug enforcement shows, cracking down on illegal goods often catches innocent bystanders in the brutal net of the law.
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Even worse, she says, you could be roped into illegal activities, such as drug smuggling, which is particularly common around the Caribbean.
In his Commons statement on Monday, Mr Straw also set out controversial measures such as drug testing at arrest and electronic tagging.
He granted his first pardons in December 2010, to nine people convicted of such offenses as drug possession, counterfeiting and mutilating coins.
At the same time, a superficially legitimate business can be used to launder money made in criminal activity, such as drug trafficking.
However, the majority of victims were not war correspondents, but local reporters covering illegal activities such as drug trafficking or illegal logging.
In Juarez, as drug cartels and local gangs battle for control of the drug trade, the police are being targeted by hit squads.
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But it will face a crowded market, as drug companies have responded to the rising incidence of diabetes world-wide by developing new treatments.
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Indirect evidence of unhappiness is equally hard to gather, since so many potential proxies, such as drug abuse and wife-beating, are hushed up.
But drug industry researchers underestimated the cost and complexity of sifting through thousands of new genes to pinpoint the tiny minority suitable as drug targets.
Elected in 1987, the MP has been a constant thorn in the side of his own government on issues such as drug legislation and nuclear weapons.
More significantly, they have as many important new drugs in their pipeline as drug companies many times their size, says Masahiro Tokunaga, analyst at Okasan securities.
Many of those who idle about for the full two years do so because they face intractable problems, such as drug addiction, homelessness and early childbearing.
Harry Green, Chief Road Safety Officer for the Department of the Environment (DoE), said most people considered drink driving unacceptable and shameful, even as reprehensible as drug-dealing.
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The nastiest-looking arteries might be stabilized with some form of local therapy, such as drug-coated stents, light-activated drugs to kill off inflamed cells or even gene therapy.
As drug makers struggle to rebound from patent losses on many of their big-selling medicines, can contract research organizations expect to experience some collective growth this year?
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