In the current year, it is spending $1.9 billion on research, prevention, drug approvals and special treatment programs.

"This drug approval represents a significant advancement in addiction treatment."

This patients' perspective can play an important role in drug approval.

The bill also takes the first steps to turn over drug approval to private groups paid for by the pharmaceutical industry.

Sales have been flat but new drug approvals may help.

It was the first new drug approval for Roche in more than a year.

As a result, no deer contraceptive yet has won federal drug approval.

Suddenly there was patient involvement in issues like drug approval.

All three groups felt that drug approvals were taking far too long.

Some of its efforts to speed federal drug approval have failed.