High Cost of Prescription Drugs Americans use several prescription drugs every year. An average senior citizen gets more than 20 prescriptions filled each year and most senior citizens take 5 different drugs. There is around 100‚000 people die each year from drugs side effects and interactions. Prescription drugs can be very costly. A prescription that is under patent protection can average to around $49 a month. And for a senior citizen that takes 5 different drugs a month and can add up
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I Article Documentation Jason A. Ford‚ PhD‚ 2008‚ Non-medical Prescription Drug Use Among College Students: A Comparison Between Athletes and Non-athletes‚ Heldref Publications‚ 211-217. II Article Summary The article is about the drug use among college students‚ and comparison between the athletes and non-athletes. We see from Dr. Ford‚ “research indicates that college athletes engage in a wide range of risky behaviors. And‚ findings indicate that college athletes are at greater risk
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Americans use or have used some type of drug(s). When the topic of drug use and/or abuse brought up‚ naturally‚ alcohol‚ tobacco‚ and illicit drugs are brought into the discussion while disregarding medically accepted drugs. Prescription drugs are usually not included although they make up a high percentage of misuse‚ abuse‚ and death. Properly prescribed medication causes approximately 106‚000 deaths and over 2 million serious side effects. Illicit drugs cause between 10‚000 and 20‚000 deaths per
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Introduction and importance of the health issue Drug abuse carries many risk of serious side effects‚ including overdose. Drug overdose is caused when a person takes more than what is medically recommended. Any type of drug overdose can either be accidental or intentional. Whether it is accidental or intentional‚ drug abuse is dangerously harmful to one’s life. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ the number of deaths due to drug overdose have increased more than double from 2002 to
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7 Research Paper No. 1518 CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIC REGIONS: THE CASE OF JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES IN CHINA TAKEHIKO ISOBE UNIVERSITY OF MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTIONSERVICES KOBE‚ JAPAN SHIGE MAKINO THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DAVID B. MONTGOMERY Stanford University September 8‚ 1998 CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIC REGIONS: THE CASE OF JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES IN CHINA1
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Prescription drug abuse has a huge effect on people and their families. Drugs have some good qualities and help in many ways. However‚ many people tend to abuse the ability to use drugs even when it is not a necessity to use the drugs anymore. Some people do not realize how much they rely on the drugs. There becomes a point in some people’s lives where they tend to take the drug not because they need it but because they have a habit and a want. Many do not realize the effect it has on the body to
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Retaliation: Under the EEOC website there is a section on Retaliation as it relates to employment at the Federal Level‚ other government levels and the private sector. The website is more informative as it relates to the Federal Level‚ for it shows employees and employer managers on how to deal with and follow through with Retaliation issues (US EEOC Commission‚ 2015). Retaliation or “reprisal” is a means of treating employees badly because they complained about discrimination‚ filed a discrimination
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Church was birthed through perseverance against intense persecution: (i) physical persecution by the governments of the time which lauded the oppression‚ imprisonment‚ torture and death of Christians for their new religious doctrines; and (ii) intellectual persecution by opposing religious sects who sort to denounce the doctrines of Christianity. The Prescription Against Heretics was written in response to the latter – to defend the tenets of Christianity against the false teachings of heretics and
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This case describes the reorganization of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) following the formation of GSK from the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. This reorganization placed nearly 2‚000 research scientists into six centers of excellence in drug discovery (CEDD). Each CEDD focused on a small set of therapeutic areas and possessed decision rights over the progression of pharmaceutical compounds through the early stages of development. It addresses issues about the benefits
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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Litigation 1. What is the territoriality principle and how does it impact cross border intellectual property litigation? Throughout history‚ we have witnessed the territorial conception of national and international intellectual property law face an array of global challenges. According to the principle of territoriality‚ the possibility of protecting an IP right is limited to the territory of the country where the right is granted. In other words‚ it is fundamentally
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