Reckitt Benckiser hit by generic ruling

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Reckitt Benckiser's stranglehold on the highly profitable anti-opiate addiction treatment market has at last been opened to competition, with the US regulator giving the green light to two manufacturers to produce rival generic versions of its drug …
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Police: Man tosses drugs in Pa. school bus crash

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Otto says the man told police he was using Suboxone, which is used to treat heroin addiction. But police say the school bus driver saw the man toss something over a hillside, and police climbed down and found what appeared to be 50 single-dose bags of …
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FDA turns down Reckitt's bid to block rival products

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The pharmaceuticals division of the British consumer health goods company makes most of its profit from Suboxone, a treatment containing buprenorphine that allows opiate addicted people cope with ceasing their use. The company had warned that generic …
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