MO BOOK 13- RC 124. The Wrong Way to Stop Fake Drugs Flashcards

Question

Russian roulette

Answer 1

Careless buyers play Russian roulette, but those who look for credentialed sites can purchase safe drugs at a significant discount.

Answer 2

Careless buyers play Russian roulette, but those who look for credentialed sites can purchase safe drugs at a significant discount.

Answer 3

Buying drugs online from overseas isn’t for everyone. It should remain a limited option for desperate cash buyers — sick people with limited resources and insurance coverage — not a way for well-insured patients to reduce their co-pay.

Answer 4

American health insurance companies should not be required to reimburse consumers for these drugs, because that would effectively import foreign governments’ price controls into the United States and undermine American companies’ research and development budgets.

Answer 5

And no doubt some bad drugs will slip through, which will probably stop the F.D.A. from backing the idea.

Answer 6

But as the problems with heparin and Avastin show, fake drugs leak into the United States already.

Answer 7

The Internet is not the problem; the problem is that United States law cannot reach many of the criminals who perpetrate the frauds because most never set foot in America. We can do something about that.

Answer 8

These criminal networks flourish across Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Turkey and the Caribbean act as major transit points, and countries like Panama launder the billions in profit.

Answer 9

A global treaty against fake drugs (and the financing to enforce it) could work to eliminate these safe havens and ensure that the perpetrators of fraud have nowhere to hide.

Answer 10

A global treaty against fake drugs (and the financing to enforce it) could work to eliminate these safe havens and ensure that the perpetrators of fraud have nowhere to hide.

Answer 11

A global treaty against fake drugs (and the financing to enforce it) could work to eliminate these safe havens and ensure that the perpetrators of fraud have nowhere to hide.

Answer 12

We have treaties against fake currency and the narcotics trade, but as the medical journal The Lancet recently noted, we do not have one for fake drugs.

Answer 13

Developing such a treaty — the World Health Organization is the obvious place to start — will take time, but it is the only way to begin to stamp out the international fake drug trade.

Answer 14

Roger Bate, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the forthcoming book “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines.”

Answer 15

Roger Bate, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the forthcoming book “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines.”

Answer 16

Roger Bate, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of the forthcoming book “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines.”

Answer 17

adj. -counterfeit money, products, tickets, etc. are illegal copies made in order to trick people - (of money and goods for sale) made to look exactly like something in order to trick people into thinking that they are getting the real thing

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n. a polysaccharide, containing sulphate groups, present in most body tissues: an anticoagulant used in the treatment of thrombosis

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adj. not real, although pretending to be real

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v. def1. [intransitive] to become known or obvious after being hidden

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보고되지 않다.

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adv. incorrect /ˌɪnkəˈrekt/ adj. wrong, or not accurate or true

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phrasal verb [transitive] def1. attribute something to someone/something to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person's actions

Answer 24

n. def1. [countable] someone or something that is dangerous and likely to cause harm

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n. [uncountable] def1. (idiomatic) The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner at the point where the occurrence is noticed, such as terminating spammers’ e-mail accounts or closing pop-up advertisement windows.

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used for saying that something happens immediately after something else

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adj. def1. not sure about the truth or quality of something, or whether you should do something

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phrasal verb [intransitive] def1. to appear very quickly or suddenly

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v. [intransitive] to obey a rule or law, or to do what someone asks you to do comply with

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v. [often passive] if you are based somewhere, you have it as your main office or place of work, or the place where you live

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v. [transitive] to make something illegal

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adj. not having insurance; not covered by insurance

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adj. not having enough insurance protection

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adj. AMERICAN having the qualifications that show you are trained or suitable for a job

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adj. def1. large in amount or degree

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n. [uncountable] the fact that something is legal

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v. [transitive] def1. Formal to allow someone to have or do what they want

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n. [countable] an official statement or document that says a right, claim, or law can be officially ignored or given up

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v. Formal def1. [transitive] to obtain something, especially with effort or difficulty

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when the whole amount or number is included

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n. [uncountable] a game in which people shoot themselves with a gun that can hold six bullets but has only one in it, so that they do not know if they will be killed

Answer 42

phrase MAINLY JOURNALISM to put something in great danger by behaving carelessly

Answer 43

*본인부담금

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v. [transitive] to give someone the same amount of money that they have spent, for example on something connected with their work

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if something or somebody slips through or slips through a system, etc., a person or a system fails to find and deal with it/them

Answer 46

*들어오고 있다.

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- to go to a place, especially when there is something special or unusual about you doing this - to enter or visit a place.

Answer 48

n. [uncountable] -def1. the activity or process of moving someone or something from one place to another - def1. [uncountable] the process of being moved or carried from one place to another

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n. [countable] an official written agreement between two or more countries. When national leaders negotiate a treaty, they discuss it before reaching agreement; and when they ratify a treaty, they give it their formal approval, usually by signing it or voting for it

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n. -def1. [countable] a safe area | - a place where someone can go to be safe from danger or attack

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v. [transitive] to make certain that something happens or is done

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n. [countable] def1. medical a drug that people use when they are very sick in order to feel less pain and sleep better

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phrasal verb [transitive] def1. to end something bad or unpleasant by taking strong and determined action

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adj. def1. [only before noun] happening or coming soon

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v. [transitive] to change something deliberately in order to trick people

Answer 56

adj. not as good as you would normally expect, or not good enough to be accepted

MO BOOK 13- RC 124. The Wrong Way to Stop Fake Drugs Flashcards

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