Word: drugsã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although these drugs are sometimes used as “date-rape drugs?? because they have the ability to induce unconsciousness and temporary amnesia, the e-mail said the two cases are not known to have resulted in sexual assaults...
...world. At the end of August, the U.S. orchestrated a WTO resolution which was trumpeted as a means to ensure the health of developing countries, while protecting pharmaceutical industry profits. But the new resolution effectively penalizes those nations that lack the capacity to manufacture their own generic drugs??invariably, those that are most impoverished—because it creates additional obstacles to the importation of life-saving medicines...
Since Medicare is the largest health program of all, it could easily use its purchasing power to get good prices and establish formularies of the most cost-effective drugs??if Congress would permit that...
...settings but it is in no mood to offer carrots. Hence diplomacy does not look hopeful. The Bush Administration seems inclined to find ways of pressuring North Korea—by urging the Chinese to cut aid, by interdicting North Korea’s illicit traffic in arms and drugs??so that the crisis can be resolved by coercion rather than bribery. So far, though, Pyongyang has responded to pressure with escalation rather than concession. If neither diplomacy nor pressure succeeds, then the options are reduced to two: either deploy the military or live with a nuclear North...
...fact, most other athletic organizations are clearly aware of performance-enhancing drugs?? downfalls. The National Basketball Association (NBA), the NFL, as well as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to name but a few, have all instituted random steroid and amphetamine testing. They have also enforced strict penalties in an effort to keep sports drug-free. The IOC, according to its official web site, has been “radically against doping” for the past 30 years, operating under the principles of “protecting athletes’ health, respecting medical and sporting ethics, and maintaining...