Sentences with phrase «[psychoactive substances»

He added: «It doesn't seem to me that it's going to be a format that you're going to get a lot of substance, because the four minutes run out and you've got to move on.»

«A majority of states have legalized and regulated marijuana despite the prohibitions in the federal Controlled Substances Act,» says Thorburn.

After the meeting, Nelson suggested that Zuckerberg's hearing could lack substance and that Congress was unlikely to pursue legislation to regulate tech companies» data collection significantly.

While there's no shortage of political back - and - forth on Facebook and Twitter, Brigade wants to be a different sort of forum, one that privileges substances and action over noise.

The illegal ingredients found in these pills and powders include things like the banned controlled substance sibutramine, which the FDA slashed from the market nearly a decade ago and the chemical phenolphthalein, which some research has suggested may be linked to cancer.

In fact, crude oil is not even ranked among the substances requiring the most care and precaution.

By its own admission, McKesson's monitoring program — which assigned customers monthly thresholds for controlled substances and involved three levels of review — was geared more towards reporting suspicious customers than isolated suspicious orders; the company believed this was the more practical approach to identifying and preventing diversion.

The net effect, however, is the same: The BBB restricts certain substances, including many larger molecules (such as the drug temozolomide), from passing into the brain from the bloodstream.

The illegal ingredients found in these pills and powders include things like the banned controlled substance sibutramine, which the FDA banned from the market nearly a decade ago.

«How in the world can you have 44 senators do a hearing that has a lot of substance when each senator has only four minutes?»

The Aurora distribution center continued to operate normally in the midst of the federal investigation; during this period, it did not have its registration to distribute controlled substances suspended or revoked as the government has done with other distributors.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind.

Modern homeopaths start by diluting a substance in water, then taking a hundredth of that solution and diluting it further, than taking a bit of that solution and diluting it in even more water until the original substance is exceedingly dilute.

During that period, the distribution center flagged for the DEA just 16 of the more than 1.6 million controlled substances orders it processed, according to the DOJ.

The company's $ 150 million settlement agreement was the largest and most severe of its kind involving a drug wholesaler, or any member of the pharmaceutical supply chain over violations of the Controlled Substances Act.

The company objects particularly to the idea that sales were a motivating factor: «Only McKesson's Regulatory personnel have the authority to raise a customer's threshold limit, and the compensation for these personnel has never been based on revenue or profitability targets for sales of controlled substances,» a McKesson spokesperson commented.

What had brought federal investigators to the doors of its Colorado distribution center were questions about the company's processes around a small and highly regulated subset of those pharmaceuticals known as controlled substances.

At the top of that funnel, some substance is poured in, which filters down towards one finite destination.

All inflationary times have proven that those who invested in substance, for example in well - run companies, had «fewer losses,» he said.

Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are a vital part of the ocean ecosystem and a popular draw for tourists.

Under his guidance, that power allowed his company to gloss over its unsavoury attributes and focus on its beautiful products.But Jobs wasn't just a spin doctor, he made sure there was substance behind the hocus - pocus.

His strategy: invest a big part of their free liquidity «in industrial substance.»

McConnell began by getting members up to speed on the substance of health care reform, a subject that historically favored Democrats by a wide margin.

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

All of our products are tested for banned substances so athletes can use them with confidence.

The researchers placed extremely premature fetuses into the Biobag, which is made of clear polyethylene and filled with a substance that mimics amniotic fluid, in order to help them survive long enough for their lungs to develop more.

Instead Sessions will allow federal prosecutors in areas where the substance is legal to decide how aggressively to enforce federal drug laws, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the AP ahead of a formal announcement expected Thursday.

He alleged that if a substance could produce the symptom an ill person was experiencing, an extremely small dose of that same substance could cure the symptom.

Now I realize that we're all short on bandwidth and attention these days, but that's no real excuse to stop learning or to settle for fictions and factoids instead of facts and real substance.

The company implemented that system, its Controlled Substance Monitoring Program (CSMP), in 2008; in Aurora, it just didn't yield any suspicious orders until the handful that came in on the Fort Lupton pharmacy in March 2012.

Such situations include when workers are harmed from hazardous substances, electricity, falls, lifting, slipping or tripping over.

Furthermore, he reasoned, the more dilute you made a preparation of the substance, the stronger its ability would be to treat those symptoms.

That is a conundrum for the state's airports, which are locally owned and operated but are subject to federal law, under which marijuana is an illegal substance.

They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse and even thoughts of suicide.

We can think about this in terms of both the substance of the outcome, and the process or mechanism by which it came about.

the Company is exposed to, and may face adverse developments involving, mass tort claims such as those relating to exposure to potentially harmful products or substances;

«I edit the substance of the interview to clean up any background noise, remove filler words like «um» and «you know,» and generally tighten things up a bit,» O'Shea Gorgone says.

As funny as they are, it's a group notorious for rampant insecurity, depression, substance abuse, and debauchery.

Much of my research was about developing materials that record physical properties of substances they come into contact with as visual patterns someone could read by eye.

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Walsky says Coalition is able to continue making the beer because there's an exemption for industrial hemp and the CBD it uses comes from a proprietary product that does not fall under the controlled substances act.

Countless studies prove the myriad health benefits of working out, including recent research that found strengthening your muscles releases enzymes that detoxify a substance called kynurenine, a byproduct of stress and inflammation.

Substance abuse isn't uncommon in the workplace.

Second, there needs to be some substance and substantiation to your point.

First, let's talk substance.

But was it Russia's fault that so many leading media outlets paid so much attention to leaked Clinton emails that contained little of substance?

Galea, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is quick - to - the - point and unflinching — even brutal, at times, in his directness, particularly in the chapterettes on firearms, substance abuse, and incarceration.

Come on, there have to be some basic behavioral ground rules and a little more substance to the culture of the tech and entrepreneurial community than the celebration of cash, cars, and creepy, chauvinistic CEOs chugging Cristal.

John Mitchell, who held the position at the time, created a «schedule» of drugs as part of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act.