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Cure-Ails
Sales Inducements
By-passing the System
Samples Abuse
Sledge-hammer Therapy
Challenging Drug Dependence
Buyers Beware - Uncontrolled Sales and Problem Drugs
>You Get Sick, You Buy Medicine
The Hazards
'Problem' Drugs
Antidiarrhoeals
Bad Information Means Dangerous Drug Use
Anabolic Steroids
Painkillers
Injections
Antibiotics and Drug Resistance
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Good and Bad Practices
Reassuring Rituals
Herbal Medicines
Plant-based Drug Industry
Factory-Produced Herbal Medicines
Local Self-reliance
Grass Roots Integration

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Trail-Blazers - Small-scale Solutions

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Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals Limited
Voluntary Health Organisations
Nepal Hill Drug Scheme
Bhojpur Drug Scheme
Village Theatre in Mexico

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Majority Health Services
Essential Drug lists
Safer, More Effective Drug Use
Generic Names
Centralised Procurement
Local Production
Distribution
Drug Registration
Import and Price Controls
Controls on Marketing Practices
Health Education
Regional Cooperation

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