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Drop Dead Gorgeous Drop Dead Gorgeous is a film originally released in 1999. It stars Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst as contestants in a beauty pageant called the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant, held in the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota.
Drop Dead Gorgeous (Tru Calling episode) Drop Dead Gorgeous is the thirteenth episode of season one of Tru Calling. While Tru tries to keep the truth about her ability from a curious newspaper reporter, Davis tells Tru there was another person who shared her “gift”.
Drop fence A drop fence is an obstacle commonly seen on the cross-country phase of equestrian eventing. It is a bank-style jump with a log fence at the take-off, requiring the horse to jump the fence but then land a step lower than the take-off.
Drop Kick (album) Drop Kick is one of the most important releases of Steve Coleman and the Five Elements. It shows Coleman's predilection for unusual time signatures, especially in songs such as "Drop Kick" and "Tschanz".
Drop Nineteens Boston-based Drop Nineteens (1991-1995) were one of a few US-based bands who styled themselves on England's distinctive shoegazer sound, taking their inspiration from the genre's most celebrated icons, My Bloody Valentine. Much like Boston's The Pixies who came before them, the band were better known in the UK, where the unsigned Drop Nineteens first gained attention from the British music press with two 8-track demos.
Drop point Drop point is a term used to describe a knife blade that slopes on the spine of the blade from the handle of the knife to the tip of the blade. This allows the spine of the blade (where the blade is thicker, and thus stronger) to continue forward to the tip of the blade.
Drop punt A drop punt is a kicking technique used in Australian rules football in which the ball is held vertically, and dropped and kicked before it hits the ground, resulting in the ball spinning backwards end over end. This is often the preferred technique as it is considered more accurate and easier to mark.
Drop registrar A drop registrar is a domain name registrar that exists solely to catch expiring Internet domain names, for the purpose of selling them. They usually work for a domain back-order service, and receive a percentage of the final auction price.
Drop shadow In computer graphics, a drop shadow is a visual effect consisting in drawing what looks like the shadow of an object, giving the impression that the object is raised above the objects behind it. The drop shadow is often used for elements of a graphical user interface such as windows or menus, and for simple text.
Drop shipping Drop shipping is a type of retailing in which the retailer does not keep goods/product in stock, but instead passes customer orders and shipment details to wholesalers, who then dispatch the goods to the customer directly. The retailers make their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price.
Drop shot A drop shot in tennis is tapping the ball just over the net so that the opponent is unable to run fast enough to retrieve it. For many years the 1940s player Bobby Riggs was considered to have had the greatest drop shot of all time, off both his forehand and his backhand.
Drop Swindle The Drop Swindle was a con game commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the "dropper", who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim.
Drop the Celebrity Drop the Celebrity is a British television game show broadcast in 2003, in which a group of British celebrities in an airplane wait for the audience on the ground to vote on who should be dropped from it by parachute. It was presented by host Mark Durden-Smith.
Drop the Debt "Drop the Debt" was a short-lived NGO formed after the dissolution of Jubilee 2000. Using Jubilee 2000's best known slogan (and what was often assumed to be that movement's name) as its name, Drop the Debt existed to work in the run-up to the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, and ensure that debt relief was on the agenda at that meeting.
Drop the Lime Born and raised in New York City, Drop The Lime is (Luca Venezia), an electronic music producer. Venezia grew up in New York City's underground rave scene, drawn to the high energy of Jungle and Drum & Bass.
Drop tower In Physics and Materials Science, a drop tower or drop tube is a structure used to produce a controlled period of weightlessness for an object under study. Air bags, polystyrene pellets, and magnetic or mechanical brakes are sometimes used to arrest the fall of the the experimental payload.
Drop tower (ride) A drop tower is a type of amusement ride, based around a central structure or tower. With most drop towers, the gondala is lifted to the top of a large vertical structure, before being released and falling towards the ground.
Drop zone In parachuting, a Drop zone or DZ is the area above and around a location where a skydiver or parachutist freefalls and expects to land. In many cases skydivers refer to the airfield at which they board aircraft in order to jump the Dropzone or DZ, but the term dropzone is intended to refer to the area in which freefall skydiving and parachute descents take place.
Drop-in pitch A drop-in pitch is a cricket pitch which is prepared away from the ground or venue in which it is used, and literally "dropped-in" to place for a cricket match. This allows multi-purpose venues to host other sports and events with more versatility than a dedicated cricket ground would allow.
Dropa The Dropa (also known as Dropas, Drok-pa or Dzopa, Chinese: ćťśç«‹ĺ·´ ) are, according to certain controversial writers, a race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials who landed near the Chinese-Tibetan border some twelve thousand years ago.
Dropdead Dropdead is a Providence, Rhode Island-based hardcore punk band whose sound can be characterized as a mix of crust punk, d-beat, power violence, and thrashcore. The band has been active in the hardcore punk scene since the early nineties, though as of March, 2005 to September 2006, they were on temporary hiatus.
Dropfile A drop file (or dropfile) is a term used by BBS enthusiasts and sysops to describe a simple binary or text file created by a bulletin board system to pass information about the BBS itself and the current user to an external BBS door.
Dropkick A dropkick is an attacking maneuver in professional wrestling. It is defined as an attack where the wrestler jumps up and kicks the opponent with the soles of both feet, this sees the wrestler twist as they jump so that when the feet connect with the opponent one foot is raised higher that the other (depending on which way they twist) and the wrestler falls back to the mat on their side, or front.
Dropout (astronomy) In astronomy, dropout is a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply above a specific wavelength. The source will be easily visible when its light is filtered to wavelengths longer than the cutoff value, but will "drop out" of the image when it is filtered to wavelengths shorter than the threshold.
Dropped ceiling In construction and architecture, a dropped ceiling, also referred to as a drop or suspended ceiling, is used as a secondary ceiling formed to conceal piping, wiring, or ductwork, into an area called the plenum. Consisting of a grid-work of metal channels in the shape of an upside-down "T", suspended on wires from the overhead structure.
Dropper A dropper is a program(malware component) that has been designed to "install" some sort of malware (virus, backdoor, etc) to a target system. The malware code can be contained within the dropper (single stage) in such a way as to avoid detection by virus scanners or the dropper may download the malware to the target machine once activated (two stage).
Droppin Well bombing The Droppin Well bombing occurred on December 6, 1982 when a small bomb killed seventeen people in the Droppin Well disco and bar in the Northern Irish town of Ballykelly, County Londonderry. The RUC believed that the bomb was small enough to fit into a handbag, but because the building had been poorly constructed the weak supports for the heavy concrete roof gave way under the force of the blast, bringing tons of concrete down onto the people inside.
Dropping Food on Their Heads Is Not Enough: Benefit for RAWA Geykido Comet Records benefit CD for Afghan Women released in 2002 was in response to the atrocities done to Afghan women by the Taliban. Featuring local unknowns as well as groups like Anti-Flag, Youth Brigade, Chumbawumba, Fleshies, The Frisk and Jello Biafra as well as setting aside 100% of all proceeds to be given to the Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) this CD was well-received by the media as well as the punk scene in general.
Dropping in Dropping in is a skateboarding trick with which a skateboarder can start skating a half-pipe by dropping into it from the coping instead of starting from the bottom and pumping gradually for more speed. When a skateboarder drops in he uses his gravitational potential energy to gain initial velocity.
Dropping Knowledge Dropping Knowledge is a non-profit organization with the aim to establish a global dialogue about the world's most pressing problems. On its website, questions are collected which may be posed on an event called "The Table of Free Voices" held on September 9 where 112 people from arts, sciences and other fields are gathered together on a huge table to answer 100 out of all collected questions.
Dropping out Dropping out means to withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values. It is a term commonly associated with the 1960s, with the counterculture and with hippies and communes.
Dropping point Dropping Point is a qualitative property of lubricating grease that gives a general indication of the temperature at which a grease passes from a semi-solid to liquid state under specific test conditions. It is a measure of the heat resistance of a grease.
Dropping the writ Dropping the writ is the informal term for a procedure in some parliamentary government systems, where the head of government, that is the prime minister, premier or chief minister as the case may be, goes to the head of state and formally advises them to dissolve parliament. By convention, the head of state grants the request and issues a writ of election for a new parliament.
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" is an alternative rock song by California rock band Train on their sophomore album Drops of Jupiter (2001). It was their first single from the album, and hit the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Dropsonde A dropsonde is a weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude to more accurately measure (and therefore track) tropical storm conditions as the device falls to the ground. The dropsonde contains a GPS receiver, along with pressure, temperature, and humidity (PTH) sensors to capture atmospheric profiles and thermodynamic data.
Dropwort Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris), also known as Fern-leaf Dropwort is a perennial herb of the family Rosaceae closely related to Meadowsweet. It is found in dry pastures across much of Europe and central and northern Asia.
Dror Adani Dror Adani was convicted with Yigal Amir and Hagai Amir in conspiring to murder Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He was also convicted for conspiring to kill Palestinians, illegal weapon production and illegal weapon possession.
Drosera anglica Drosera anglica, commonly known as the English sundew or Great sundew, is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus. It is a temperate species with a generally circumboreal range, although it does occur as far south as Japan, southern Europe, and Kaua'i (Hawaiian Island), where it grows as a subtropical sundew.
Drosera binata Drosera binata, (or the Fork-leaved sundew) is a species of sundew, a type of carnivorous plant. It is native to warm-temperate coastal regions of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania in Australia, as well as New Zealand.
Drosera intermedia Drosera intermedia, commonly known as the oblong-leaved sundew or spoonleaf sundew, is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus. It is a temperate or tropical species native to Europe, southeastern Canada, the eastern half of the United States, Cuba and northern South America.
Drosera rotundifolia Drosera rotundifolia (the common sundew or round-leaved sundew) is a species of sundew, a carnivorous plant often found in bogs, marshes and fens. One of the most widespread sundew species, it is generally circumboreal, being found in all of northern Europe, much of Siberia, large parts of northern North America, Japan and is also found on New Guinea.
Drosha Drosha is an RNase III enzyme responsible for initiating the processing of microRNA (miRNA), or short RNA molecules naturally expressed by the cell that regulate a wide variety of other genes by interacting with the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) to induce cleavage of complementary messenger RNA (mRNA). A microRNA molecule is synthesized as a long RNA primary transcript known as a pri-miRNA, which is cleaved by Drosha to produce a characteristic stem-loop structure of about 70 base pairs long, known as a pre-miRNA.
Drosia Drosia or Drossia (Greek: Δροσιά meaning cool, dew) is a rather exclusive suburb in Attica, Greece -- just about 22 km north of Athens. Drosia is a mainly residential suburb, known for its location in the midst of evergreen pine forests.
Drosophila Drosophila is a genus of small flies whose members are often called small fruit flies, or more appropriately vinegar flies, wine flies, pomace flies, grape flies, and picked fruit-flies. A second insect family, the Tephritidae are also called fruit flies; they feed on unripe or ripe fruit.
Drosophila embryogenesis Drosophila has long been a favorite model system for geneticists and developmental biologists studying embryogenesis. The small size, short generation time, and large brood size makes it ideal for genetic studies.
Drosophila melanogaster Drosophila melanogaster (from the Greek for black-bellied dew-lover) is a two-winged insect that belongs to the Diptera, the order of the flies. The species is commonly known as the fruit fly, and is one of the most commonly used model organisms in biology, including studies in genetics, physiology and life-history evolution.
Drosophila melanogaster species group The Drosophila melanogaster species group belongs to the subgenus Sophophora and contains 12 subgroups. The phylogeny in this species group is poorly known despite many studies covering many of the species subgroups.
Drosophilidae Drosophilidae (Order: Diptera) is a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, including the genus Drosophila, which includes fruit flies, vinegar flies, wine flies, pomace flies, grape flies, and picked fruit-flies. The best known species is Drosophila melanogaster that is used extensively for studies concerning genetics, development, physiology, ecology, behaviour, etc.
Drosophyllum Drosophyllum is a genus of carnivorous plants containing the single species Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Portuguese Sundew or Dewy pine). In appearance, it is similar to the related genus Drosera (the sundews), and to the much more distantly related Byblis (the rainbow plants).
Dross Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal bath. It appears usually on the melting of low melting point metals or alloys such as tin, lead, zinc or aluminium, or by oxidation of the metal(s).
Droste effect The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a specific kind of recursive picture. A picture exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear.
Drotrecogin alfa Drotrecogin alpha (activated) (Xigris®, marketed by Eli Lilly) is a recombinant form of human activated protein C that has anti-thrombotic, anti-inflammatory, and profibrinolytic properties. Drotrecogin alpha (activated) belongs to the class of serine proteases.
Drots Drots (Swedish) or drost (Danish) (one of plausible translations is: Lord High Justiciar) is a Danish and Swedish name of a supreme state official, with at least a connotation to administration of judiciary, who in medieval Scandinavia was often a leader in the government.
Drottningholm Drottningholm, or literally "Queen's Islet", is a village on the island Lovön in lake Mälaren on the outskirts of Stockholm (Ekerö Municipality), Sweden. The Drottningholm Palace, the residence of the Swedish royal family since 1981, is located here.
Drottningholm Palace The Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. It is located in Drottningholm (literally meaning Queen's island) on the island Lovön (in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County), and is one of Sweden's Royal Palaces.
Drottningholm Palace Theatre The Drottningholms Slottsteater or The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden and has been described by Per-Erik Öhrn, the theatre’s artistic director, as "the Swedish jewel in our European cultural heritage crown of centuries old theatres".
Drought A drought is a period of time when there is not enough water to support agricultural, urban or environmental water needs. A drought usually refers to an extended period of below-normal rainfall, but can also be caused by drying bores or lakes, or anything that reduces the amount of liquid water available.
Drought in Australia Drought in Australia is defined by rainfall over a three month period being in the lowest ten percent of amounts having been recorded for that region in the past. This definition takes into account that low rainfall is a relative term and rainfall deficiencies need to be compared to typical rainfall patterns including seasonal variations.
Drover (Australian) A Drover in Australia is a person (Stockman) who takes cattle over long distances, usually during a drought or season change in search of green pastures on which the cattle can feed. Droving was extremely popular in the Kosciuszko National Park and Alpine National Park areas until the areas became National Parks.
Drover fest Drover Fest is the annual events held in the spring at the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha,Oklahoma. The festivities include an onsite art contest, onsite chalk art contest, onsite scholarly competitions, concerts, and many more events.
Drown (song) "Drown" was a song by alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins on the 1992 soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe film, Singles. Debuted during the Gish tour and written not long after that record was released, the song, a heady mixture of psychedelia and dream pop became a moderate radio hit in the summer of 1992 and gave the band significant exposure just before work commenced on Siamese Dream.
Drown Megan Records Drown Megan Records is a record label based in Rockaway, New Jersey. Founded in 2005 by Robb Fleming, frontman of the indie rock/post-hardcore group Magnolia Sage, and several of his brother and several close friends.
Drowned Out Drowned Out is a 2002 documentary by Franny Armstrong about the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project. It closely follows a family that is unwilling to leave its village home as the water levels of the Narmada River, mostly because the government provides them no viable alternatives (they offer unusable land a hundred miles away or a small sum of money in compensation for their river-side land).
Drowned World Tour The 2001 Drowned World Tour was Madonna's first world-tour in eight years, following her 1993 The Girlie Show Tour. It was one of the most successful and highest grossing concert tours of the year 2001 by selling out all concert dates throughout North America and Europe.
Drowning with Land in Sight Drowning With Land In Sight is the title of The 77s' seventh album, released in 1994 on the Myrrh Records label. The music, their heaviest up to that point, ranged from the opening note-for-note Led Zeppelin cover to the straightforward Rolling Stones homage "Cold Cold Night" to Roy Orbison-influenced ballads "Film at 11", "The Jig Is Up," and "Alone Together.
Drowtales Drowtales is a site that hosts numerous webcomics, several of which take place in the Drowtales universe; a world based off of Yan "Kern" Gagné's interpretation of Drow elves-- including history, cultures, world, and evolution of subspecies. The "main" featured comic is called Moonless age written and drawn by the site's webmaster Kern and revolves (mostly) around Ariel Val'Sarghress, her upbringing and later quest to find a friend who has been banished.
Droylsden (UK Parliament constituency) Droylsden was a parliamentary constituency in the historic county of Lancashire in the North West of England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Drozd Drozd ("thrush" in Russian) is an active protection system developed in the Soviet Union, designed for increasing tanks' protection against anti-tank missiles and RPGs. It is considered the world's first operational active protection system, created in 1977–78 by A.
Drozd BB rifle The Baikal MP661K known as Drozd is known as a widely popular BB rifle, imported by European American Armory (EAA) and known as the 'Bumble Bee'. It is best known for being one of the few select fire BB rifles that can fire single, three-round, and six-round bursts.
Drpresha DRPRESHA (Doctor Pressure) is a select entry, undergraduate study team encompassing Mechanical engineering and Aerospace engineering students from Monash University, Clayton Campus. Though the group describes itself in jest as an undergraduate mafia it is not involved in any criminal enterprise.
DrScheme DrScheme is a free software interactive programming environment for the Scheme programming language which has a graphical user interface. It is a key part of PLT Scheme, which contains a full implementation of R5RS along with significant extensions.
Dru Down Dru Down (born Darnel Robinson) used to be a rapper in the early 1990's from Oakland, California. His Song Ice Cream Man from the album Explicit Game was a minor underground hit but he earned airplay with Pimp of the Year (sometimes played with more radio-friendly lyrics under the name Mack of the Year) from the same album.
Dru Hill Dru Hill is an American singing group, most popular during the late 1990s, whose repertoire included R&B, soul, and gospel music. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland and active since 1992, Dru Hill recorded seven Top 40 hits, and is best known for the R&B #1 hits "In My Bed", "Never Make a Promise", and "How Deep is Your Love".
Dru Lavigne Dru Lavigne is an instructor of computer networking and security at Marketbridge Technologies in Ottawa, Canada, maintainer of the Open Protocol Resource, writer for the "FreeBSD Basics" column on ONLamp, and author of BSD Hacks. Lavigne is well-known for advocating the use of the FreeBSD operating system.
Dru Onyx Rodney Lloyd Anthony Kellman (born September 24, 1974 in Barbados, now residing in Montreal Quebec Canada), better known by his ring name Dru Onyx, is an Canadian professional wrestler, who is currently performing for the National Wrestling Alliance.
Dru Sjodin Dru Kathrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 - November 22, 2003), a student of the University of North Dakota (UND), was a victim of kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder. Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout the United States.
Drubskin Drubskin, also known as "Drub", is a San Diego, California based, homoerotic, homomasculine fetish artist and a member of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice active in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Drub as a pseudonym given to him when he started a web column on a gay internet erotica magazine called Nightcharm.
Drucilla Winters Drucilla Barber Winters is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Victoria Rowell has portrayed the character since 1990 (she departed the show in 1998, returned in 2000 and then returned again in 2002).
Drude (crater) Drude is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, in the rugged Montes Cordillera range that forms the outer ring around the Mare Orientale impact basin. It is located just behind the west-southwest limb, and this area is sometimes brought into sight of the Earth during favorable librations.
Drude model The Drude model of electrical conduction was developed in the 1900s by Paul Drude to explain the transport properties of electrons in materials (especially metals). The Drude model is the application of kinetic theory to electrons in a solid.
Drude particle Drude particles are model oscillators used to simulate the effects of electronic polarizability in the context of a classical molecular mechanics force field. Molecular mechanics models, commonly used for computational calculations such as structural minimization and molecular dynamics simulations, represent individual atoms or other particles as hard spheres that interact according to the laws of Newtonian mechanics.
Drue Kataoka Drue Kataoka is a Tokyo-born American artist who paints in the ancient Japanese art form of Sumi-e. Trained in the classical canon, she paints modern subject matter such as cultural, political, sports, and business leaders.
Drug A drug is any biological substance, synthetic or non-synthetic, that is taken primarily for non-dietary needs. It is usually synthesized outside of an organism, but introduced into an organism to produce its action.
Drug abuse Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions, all of them relating either to the misuse or overuse of a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. Some of the most commonly abused drugs include alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, methaqualone, opium alkaloids, and minor tranquilizers.
Drug action The action of drugs on the human body is called pharmacodynamics, and what the body does with the drug is called pharmacokinetics. The drugs that enter the human tend to stimulate certain receptors, ion channels, act on enzymes or transporter proteins.
Drug addiction Drug addiction is a condition where a person takes a drug compulsively, despite potential harm to themselves, or their desire to stop. Although being addicted implies dependence, it is possible to be dependent on a drug without being addicted.
Drug Abuse Warning Network The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health surveillance system that monitors Drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments and Drug-related deaths investigated by medical examiners and coroners
Drug court Drug courts are specialized courts designed to handle cases involving offenders who abuse addictive substances. The judiciary, prosecution, defense bar, probation, law enforcement, mental health, social service, and treatment communities work together to break the cycle of addiction.
Drug delivery Drug delivery is a term that refers to the delivery of a pharmaceutical compound to humans or animals. Most common methods of delivery include the preferred non-invasive oral (through the mouth), nasal, pneumonial (inhalation), and rectal routes.
Drug design Drug design is the approach of finding drugs by design, based on their biological targets. Typically a drug target is a key molecule involved in a particular metabolic or signalling pathway that is specific to a disease condition or pathology, or to the infectivity or survival of a microbial pathogen.
Drug development Drug Development or Preclinical Development is defined in many pharmaceutical companies as the process of taking a new chemical lead through the stages necessary to allow it to be tested in human clinical trials, although a broader definition would encompass the entire process of drug discovery and clinical testing of novel drug candidates.
Drug diversion In the terminology of the Drug Enforcement Administration, diversion is the use of prescription drugs for recreational purposes. The term comes from the "diverting" of the drugs from their original purposes.
Drug Design and Optimization Lab Drug Design and Optimization Lab better known as "D2OL" is a Distributed Computing project with the goal of discovering drug candidates to fight SARS, Anthrax, Smallpox and other diseases and is currently being hosted by The Rotherberg Institute.
Drug Discovery Hit to Lead Early drug discovery involves several phases from Target identification to preclinical development. The identification of small molecule modulators of protein function and the process of transforming these into high-content lead series are key activities in modern drug discovery.
Drug effectiveness review project DERP is a collaboration of public and private organizations, including fifteen states, that have joined together to provide systematic evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities.
Drug Efficacy Study Implementation This was a program begun by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1960s after the requirement that all drugs be efficacious as well as safe. The DESI program was intended to classify all pre-1962 drugs that were already on the market as either effective, uneffective, or needing further study.
Drug Emporium Drug Emporium is the name of a discount drug store corporation, founded in 1977 in Columbus, Ohio, that was sold to several different buyers during 2000 to 2001. Although several store locations continue to use the Drug Emporium name, these locations are longer affiliated with the now-defunct Columbus-based corporation.
Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency, a federal police service tasked with enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Not only is the DEA the lead agency for domestic enforcement of federal drug laws (sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation), it also has sole responsibility for coordinating and pursuing U.
Drug holiday A drug holiday (sometimes also called a drug vacation, medication vacation or structured treatment interruption) is when a medicated patient stops taking a drug for a period of time, from a few days to several months.
Drug Houses of Australia DHA was originally established in 1974 as an amalgamation of 7 small Australian pharmaceutical companies. Drug Houses of Australia is a leading generic pharmaceutics and Chinese proprietary medicine (CPM) manufacturer based in Jurong, Singapore.

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