Noun a new drug used to treat people with high blood pressure an experimental drug for the treatment of AIDS Have you ever taken any illegal drugs? I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. Verb He looks like he's been drugged. Someone could have drugged your drink. See More
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San Diego Democrat was excoriated for blocking broader legislation, but his framework to lower drug costs was adopted and now receives wide praise About a year ago, Rep. Scott Peters was not very popular in some quarters. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law yesterday, addressing climate change, drug costs, and corporate tax rates. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022 Yet aside from possibly insulin, drug costs are generally a much bigger deal for seniors than younger Americans. Peter Weber, The Week, 12 Aug. 2022 The reconciliation bill should reduce drug costs by empowering Medicare to negotiate down prices of some popular drugs with providers. Greg Ip, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 The legislation caps out-of-pocket drug costs to $2,000 a year, Gifford said. Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2022 Lowering drug costs and applying those savings to the Part A trust fund is an option.CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022 The bill, which among other things aims to ease pharmaceutical prices by letting the government negotiate Medicare's drug costs, is expected to cut the federal budget deficit by $300 billion over a decade. Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022 The bill, which among other things aims to ease pharmaceutical prices by letting the government negotiate Medicare’s drug costs, is expected to cut the federal budget deficit by $300 billion over a decade. Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
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That dispiriting defeat, after 20 years of hard fighting against a determined enemy, no doubt contributes to the malaise driving soldiers to drug themselves with opioids and other toxic narcotics. Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2022 Because they’d been found on bodies of dead animals at the bottom of the sea, they drug whale carcasses and other dead animals out and sank them to the bottom. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Aug. 2022 Linda Joy Traitz, a former waitress at a restaurant owned in part by Cosby, wrote a long Facebook post accusing him of trying to drug her in the early '70s. Chris Francescani, ABC News, 30 June 2021 Huntsville police drug their feet in working with the committee. Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 28 Apr. 2021 One chapter was about a profoundly disabled man who tried and then tried again to starve himself to death—until finally, at his rabid insistence, his mother agreed to drug him and hold a plastic bag over his head. Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021 The famed comedian’s first trial, on charges of drugging and assaulting one woman, ended with a hung jury in June 2017. Deanna Paul, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020 Another consultant delivered similar findings in early 2013, although his credibility was undermined when he was accused of drugging and assaulting several women in Portland.oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2020 Shortly after Garrison left the company, an employee named Mary Ann Olszewski sued Bloomberg LP in 1996, alleging that she was drugged and raped by her supervisor. Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2020 See More