Audience member Some research has indicated that statins can be helpful.

Statins, nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs and a few others, they inhibit angiogenesis too.

This is a drug called reboxetine.

The high price of such drugs is limiting their impact as well. Herceptin can cost up to 40,000 annually, and newer cancer drugs cost even more, making them prohibitively expensive for most patients.

It seems that opiates and non opiate sedatives are the two major types of drugs abused in the region, followed by cannabis and cocaine.

A. Trends in the volume of drug trafficking 1. Opiates

They have other drugs besides sulpha.

In section A of chapter I global developments are summarized by type of drug, that is, opiates, cocaine, cannabis and psychotropic and controlled precursor substances.

Of the other substances, the quot ecstasy quot group constitutes the most dynamic quot growth area quot in many countries, especially in Europe.

Barbara Bradfield, one of the original subjects in research trials for the pharmacogenetic cancer drug Herceptin, has now been stable on the drug for more than 20 years. But such success stories are far too rare to constitute a golden age of genetics.

South Africa reported injection of amphetamine type drugs.

And I don't know that there is any way responsibly for someone to start medicating their children with their personal supply of Lipitor or something of that nature.

LG Yeah. There is some evidence that taking Lipitor and other common statins for cholesterol control may decrease your vulnerability to influenza.

Injecting practices of amphetamine type drugs were reported also in central Asia.

A. Prevalence of drug abuse by drug type 2 17 4

of drug abuse by drug type

8. Opiate type drugs were the second most frequently reported drugs of abuse, with 69 countries reporting 1.2 million abusers.

Map 3shows the distribution of countries reporting injecting drug use and indicates those countries reporting HIV infection among IDUs.

As to the kind of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances they used, it was cannabis (52.8 per cent), ecstasy (18.4 per cent), diazepam (9.4 per cent).

At the same time, the increasing availability and abuse of synthetic drugs such as amphetamine type stimulants was a cause of concern, particularly in view of their prevalence among young people.

Table. Estimates of prevalence of drug abuse, by drug type and by country or territory, INTRODUCTION

Moreover, India has large scale licit production of psychotropic substances which are exported, licitly and illicitly, to other countries of the subregion, where the substances are widely abused.

Availability of opiates for medical needsSee paragraph 73 above.

(c) Illicit cultivation and production of opiates

Emphasizing that the need to balance the global licit supply of opiates against the legitimate demand for opiates for medical and scientific purposes is central to the international strategy and policy of drug abuse control,

Emphasizing that the need to balance the global licit supply of opiates against the legitimate demand for opiates for medical and scientific purposes is central to the international strategy and policy of drug abuse control,

These are commonly prescribed antidepressants.

1. Countries reporting seizures by drug type

Demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific needs

Rev.1 medical needs 4

This was also true for non opiate sedatives.

14. Amphetamine type drugs refer to amphetamine, methamphetamine ( quot ice quot ) and other amphetamines.

Demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific needsSee paragraph 76 below.

Rev.1 for medical and scientific needs 4

5. Urges Governments to take the necessary measures for effective compliance with the provisions of the international drug control treaties relating to the advertisement of drugs, particularly those described in the report of the Expert Meeting on Amphetamine type Stimulants

5. Cannabis type drugs refer to cannabis products such as hashish and marijuana.

(d) Other drug treatments

50. A universal trend on the reporting of psychotropic substances is difficult to identify, as the different groups of substances showed different developments.

It appears that synthetic drugs, particularly the amphetamine type stimulants, will be a problem of the twenty first century.

In many regions, data on demand for drug abuse treatment are the main type of data that are routinely available on drug abuse.

The traditional amphetamine type stimulants, methamphetamine and amphetamine, are still the two most widely abused substances in the group.

You can give drug administration.

59. Drug abuse and trafficking were among the greatest threats to mankind.

6. Requests the United Nations International Drug Control Programme to organize similar seminars in other regions of the world

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.