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In some markets, drug prices are set or influenced by the prices in other, nearby markets. [1] In Europe, for example, people freely and easily travel to different countries, and the price of a certain drug in one country affects the price in other, nearby countries. [1]
Global Justice Now and Stop AIDS Campaign published a report claiming patients could not always afford drugs where the public sector had partly funded research to develop those drugs. The report claims, "In many cases, the UK taxpayer effectively pays twice for medicines: first through investing in R&D, and then by paying high prices for the ...
Until 1916 drug use was hardly controlled, and widely available opium and coca preparations commonplace. [1]: 13–14 Between 1916 and 1928 concerns about the use of these drugs by troops on leave from the First World War and then by people associated with the London criminal society gave rise to some controls being implemented. [1]
Territory Drug and precursor laws United Nations INCB – Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 [1] INCB – Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971 [2] INCB – United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988 [3]
Under the Act, a prescription for these drugs need to show full details including the form and strength of the preparation, with the total quantity written out in both words and figures. It is an offence for a doctor to issue an incomplete prescription or for a pharmacist to dispense a controlled drug unless all the required details are given.
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A prescription drug (also prescription medication, prescription medicine or prescription-only medication) is a pharmaceutical drug that is permitted to be dispensed only to those with a medical prescription. In contrast, over-the-counter drugs can be obtained without a prescription.
The MHRA and the US Food and Drug Administration were criticised in the 2012 book Bad Pharma, [43] and in 2004 by David Healy in evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee, [44] for having undergone regulatory capture, i.e. advancing the interests of the drug companies rather than the interests of the public.