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Leena Menghaney: India’s patent law on trial

September 27, 2012

This month, two critical legal battles between multinational pharmaceutical companies and the Indian government are taking center stage in an ongoing struggle over India’s medicines patent law. The potential consequences […]

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MSF, South Asiadrugs, India, patents0 Comments

Jeremy Sare: Drug consumption offence

May 30, 2012

The debate between prohibitionists and drug reformers is often one between morality and pragmatism. Comments made last week by Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, about drug testing employees […]

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Deborah Cohen: Amy Winehouse’s battle with addiction

July 25, 2011

When celebrity ill-health and death play out across the media, the chattering classes inevitably all have their say. With Jade Goody attention turned to cervical cancer (and created mass hysteria […]

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Editors at largeaddiction, drugs3 Comments

Jeremy Sare on drug sentencing

April 18, 2011

Most drug users are not addicted. Most suppliers of drugs are not dealers. These central truths about patterns of drug use in Britain are incompatible with the policies adopted by […]

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Joe Collier: A stab at future UK Drug Pricing Policy

July 3, 2008

We are now into the fifth month of the negotiations to reform the secretive and perverse (and essentially discredited) UK Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), and we can safely assume […]

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Guest writersdrugs, NHS, NICE, Office of Fair Trading, Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme1 Comment

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