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...chemical equivalents of brand-name drugs and deliver the same amount of medicine with the same speed into the bloodstream. Because of this change in the rules, industry experts predict that within a year or two, generic copies of perhaps 150 leading brand-name drugs will appear. They include Valium, a tranquilizer, Diabinese, a pill to control diabetes, and Motrin, a medicine for arthritis. Hemant Shah, a drug-industry specialist with Mabon, Nugent, a Wall Street investment firm, estimates that by 1987, 25% of all prescriptions will be filled with generic drugs, up from...
...much they will save by using generic products. To counteract these laws, the brand-name companies encourage doctors to write "dispense as written" or "no substitution" on their prescriptions. In addition, the big firms try to give their pills distinctive shapes and trademarks. Hoffmann-La Roche's Valium tranquilizer tablets, for example, have a V carved in the center. The company hopes that when Valium's patent expires next February, patients will be reluctant to change medicines and will ask for the pills with the familiar symbol...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...
Medications: Valium occasionally...
...clinic patients have less concrete causes for their suffering. For them, the first step often is to be weaned from whatever narcotics they have been taking for relief, substituting methadone if necessary and offering psychological counseling. Doctors tend to frown upon the use of narcotics and muscle relaxants like Valium because they may add to a pain sufferer's debilitation...