During a Million drug bust in Canada, police discovered a new synthetic drug that is 40 times stronger than heroin. One police officer involved in the bust was hospitalized with heart palpitations after briefly coming in contact with it, even though he was wearing a protective mask.
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A new drug with detrimental effects has made its appearance in the streets of austerity Athens. Mostly taken by the poor and the homeless, sisa is ‘the cocaine of the poor’, as one user put it
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US authorities announced Monday a 0 million dollar fine against Indian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy after it pleaded guilty to selling adulterated drugs in the United States.
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The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does almost nothing to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, and this drug-trafficking problem will likely worsen in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
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“..With both the CIA and MI6 secretly providing ‘ghost money’ bribes to the Afghan political establishment, it’s likely that Afghans will increasingly support a resurgent Taliban and the drug trade will be further propped up…”
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Doctors treating cancer patients with Avastin are being warned that the medication has been linked to rare cases of necrotizing fasciitis, the infection better known as flesh-eating disease.
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Gee, the doctors took notice. The US is a pretty bad example; average drug prices doubled in the past ten years for no apparent reason.
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GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of paying three generic firms to delay the release of cheaper copies of one of its key anti-depressant drugs in a bid to protect one of its best performing products.
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British antitrust authorities accused the pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline on Friday of paying three rivals to delay the introduction of a generic version of an antidepressant drug.
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Guinea-Bissau is so poor that I am amazed that they can afford ships! Anyway, this was a DEA sting operation. It look more like a warning to other West African nations and Colombia’s FARC rebels to me.
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