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...using patent lawsuits and other delaying tactics to prevent cheaper generic medicines from entering the market, the drug majors cost European consumers up to $4 billion over an eight-year period until 2007, E.U. competition commissioner Neelie Kroes contends. "Market entry of generic companies and the development of new and more affordable medicines is sometimes blocked or delayed, at significant cost to health-care systems, consumers and taxpayers," she said in Brussels...
...that continues HAT after its mandate runs out at the end of 2009. They will also vote on whether to decriminalize the production and consumption of cannabis, although Switzerland's current legislation on the matter is lax and penalties for private use rarely enforced. (See pictures of Mexico's drug trafficking industry...
...Instead, Swiss government convened expert scientific and ethical advisory bodies that devised a liberal alternative to "zero-tolerance" drug policies practiced elsewhere, focusing on prevention, harm reduction, and therapy. Switzerland's stance of giving the most severely dependent addicts not only heroin, but also counseling and medical treatment, has since spawned similar programs in Great Britain and the Netherlands. A handful of other countries are considering implementing this strategy as well...
...Though the long-term goal of the program is to get addicts off the drug says Kormann, "our immediate priority is survival, reintegration into society, and reducing crime. In this regard, we have been very successful...
...Indeed, official figures show that drug-related crime, deaths, and HIV rates among HAT participants have dropped significantly, and some of the formerly unemployed patients were able to find and keep jobs. "In many cases, patients' mental and physical health has improved, their housing situation stabilized, and contacts with addicts and the drug scene have decreased," the Federal Office of Public Health says...