Word: librium
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...Have a jelly bean," she suggested, as if to impart the therapeutic properties of a librium to a piece of candy. I popped one in my mouth anyway...
...when Schlieder and Borschette opened an investigation into pricing policies of Adams' employer, Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., the giant Basle-based pharmaceutical company. The EEC was curious as to why there were wide country-to-country variances in prices for livestock vitamins and two popular Roche tranquilizers, Librium and Valium. Officials suspected Roche of violating several articles of the Treaty of Rome, which governs trade between Common Market countries. If so, the company would also be in violation of a separate trade agreement between the EEC and Switzerland, which is not a member of the Common Market...
Over the past nerve-rattling decade, millions of patients round the world have shooed the blues or relieved tension by swallowing Librium and Valium, the tranquilizers that are among the biggest-selling prescription drugs ever marketed. Every little capsule adds to the billions of dollars in sales and untold millions in profits reaped by their discoverer: Switzerland's secretive F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., which may well be the world's largest seller of drugs (estimated volume: $1.6 billion per year). That phenomenal success has now embroiled Roche in a worldwide dispute that has driven its British prices...
...socialized National Health Service began getting out of hand. Among other things, the Department of Health and Social Security has urged doctors to prescribe drugs by their generic rather than their brand names, and the government has granted rival drug companies the right to copy patented drugs such as Librium and Valium if they pay a royalty to the developing firm. The remedies have had some effect: after Berk Pharmaceuticals Ltd. came out with a copy of Valium called Atensine in 1971, Roche's British subsidiary cut its prices by 36%. Though the wholesale cost of a kilogram...
...order itself be overturned "for want of natural justice"; the other demands compensation from the government for the enforced price cuts if the company wins the main case. Meanwhile, the governments of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and five European countries are beginning their own investigations of Valium and Librium prices. Because no U.S. Government agency now has the power to regulate drug prices, there are unlikely to be any effects on U.S. prices. Elsewhere, controversy is likely to rage for years, during which Roche executives, government officials and judges in several countries are likely to need stiff doses...