Sentences with phrase «continued use of the substances»

Addiction is the continued use of substances or repetitive behaviors despite negative consequences with family, friends, and careers.

Continued use of the substances despite knowing the dangers and the problems caused by the substance use

Not exact matches

His claim about a clean comeback «is a direct attack on the credibility of the USADA [U.S. Anti-Doping Agency] report, which maintains that blood samples from those years indeed suggest he continued to use banned substances,» note Red and O'Keeffe at the Daily News.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

Words such as «will,» «access,» «focus,» «deliver,» «work» «continue» or the negative of such terms or other variations thereof and words and terms of similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future plans, actions, or events identify forward - looking statements.

Whitehead's point in both passages (PR 253 and PR 241) is that Descartes, Locke, and Hume, etc., having adopted the subjectivist bias, inconsistently do what they should not do; namely, continue to interpret the datum in the act of experience using the substance - quality categories.

«The findings speak to the necessity of continuing to encourage meaningful substance use prevention programs during adolescence and making sure students have the resilience skills necessary to stay away from substances,» said Dr. Nadine Connell, assistant professor of criminologyand lead author of the study.

Drug addiction, or substance dependence is the compulsive use of psychoactive drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use.

«The misuse of these substances can not be allowed to continue to curtail their use as tools for understanding the neurobiology of human consciousness, self - awareness and their potential as therapeutic agents.»

Despite the growing use of online support groups such as those on Facebook to help curb substance abuse, attending traditional face - to - face meetings may continue to be more effective for people trying to maintain sobriety, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 123rd Annual Convention.

Although officials largely stamped out the practice of adding melamine to food, most people continue to be exposed to the substance, an industrial chemical also used in other plastics, flooring and whiteboards.

Although the Montreal Protocol came into force in 1987 and restricted the use of ozone - depleting substances, atmospheric concentrations of these harmful substances continued to rise as they can survive in the atmosphere for many years.

But the Toxic Substances Control Act explicitly allowed chemicals already employed at the time of the law's passage — BPA and more than 60,000 others — to continue to be used without any evaluation for toxicity or exposure limits.

Substance use disorders of highly addictive opioids like heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone continue to skyrocket in the U.S. Intravenous opioid use disorders are a major contributor to the drug overdoses that are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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According to the American Psychiatric Association, a key sign of substance dependence is when a person continues to use a substance even when he or she knows it's causing physical or mental health problems.

Wikipedia defines an addiction «as the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences.»

For children whose ADHD continues into adulthood, the overall risk of developing a substance use disorder is as high as 50 %, by some estimates.

The theory of craving predicts relapse episodes in drug cravings as continued substance use; food cravings are predicted by weight gain and eating.

I have a more - than - healthy respect for the way that a single outlier experimental run can continue to influence both evaluations of an entire set of the same experiment and the design of later experiments, such as determining whether a particular single - instance determination of the level of 9 - nor - delta tetrahydrocannabinate indicates prior use of Certain Substances all by itself... or requires a similar result from a retest of the same sample.

In his prepared statement, Yasir Suleiman says, ««The Arab novel continues to reflect, and reflect upon, its social and political milieu using the cataclysmic events of the present as its substance or backdrop.

New York (would mandate euthanasia by injection or EBI), Pennsylvania (would also ban chloroform, ether, halothan, fluothane, or similar substance when used in an airtight chamber or plastic bag, North Carolina (would mandate EBI), Georgia (EBI mandated already for dogs and cats and bill would close loopholes that allow many counties to continue to use CO gas; the bill would allow heartstick only if the animal is unconscious, heavily sedated or comatose), West Virginia (would ban new Co gas chambers), New Mexico, Louisiana (would ban CO chambers for dogs and cats and also ban heartstick unless the «animal is unconscious or rendered completely unconscious and insensitive to pain through the injection of an anesthetic») and Michigan (would also ban CO2).

In the exhibition's catalogue Bernice Rose states: «Chamberlain's is a radical step in this [modernism's] history: the translation of de Kooning's inherently sculptural continued... brushstroke from a soft material used for the creation of visual illusions and illusionary spaces into a hard, thin, and three - dimensional substance that could be considered as a support for those illusions.»

As with Noland's earlier work, he continued to apply color as a physical material substance, but unlike his earlier hard edged paintings which rely on fields of dense color, for Into the Cool he used color through subtle tone and transparency.

As Mashey documents here, so well, this whole party has been a set - up, with scientists on one side, bound by the rules of evidence and by their own integrity, and think tanks, PR counsellors and their aides and allies on the other side, using any technique aailable (including, apparently, obtaining, using and disseminating stolen emails), to defend the right of fossil fuel companies to continue, unrestrained, in the sale and distribution of a substance that is threatening the human habitability of planet earth.

Continued use despite social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of the substance.

That dependence is just as real and powerful an influencer of continued use as is the addiction to the substance.

Continued substance use despite social or interpersonal problems caused by or exacerbated by the effects of the substance.

Most adolescents (69.8 %) continued to meet full criteria for ADHD, were known to specialist services and exhibited high levels of antisocial behaviour, criminal activity and substance use problems.

Continued analysis of the SET programme is ongoing with regard to drug, alcohol, volative - substance use (sniffing) and smoking outcomes and to issues of implementation and attitudes of the SET teachers.

Continued use and / or engagement in addictive behaviors, despite the presence of persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problems which may have been caused or exacerbated by substance use and / or related addictive behaviors;

When substance use and antisocial behavior both began in childhood and continued into adulthood, both a substance use disorder and antisocial personality disorder should be diagnosed if the criteria for both are met, even though some antisocial acts may be a consequence of the substance use disorder (e.g., illegal selling of drugs, thefts to obtain money for drugs).

When antisocial behavior in an adult is associated with a substance use disorder, the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder is not made unless the signs of antisocial personality disorder were also present in childhood and have continued into adulthood.

There is quite a debate as to what constitutes substance abuse, so here are the definitions of substance dependence and substance abuse paraphrased from the (DSMIV) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders: Substance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the ssubstance abuse, so here are the definitions of substance dependence and substance abuse paraphrased from the (DSMIV) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders: Substance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the ssubstance dependence and substance abuse paraphrased from the (DSMIV) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders: Substance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the ssubstance abuse paraphrased from the (DSMIV) Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders: Substance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the sSubstance dependence is defined as when a person continues to use the substance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the ssubstance despite significant substance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the ssubstance related problems and a minimum of (3) of the following signs are present at any time during the same year.

Among the Health indicators, there is continued progress in getting children insured and reducing alcohol and substance use among teens, but there has been no progress in helping youngsters achieve healthy weights or in the percent of low birthweight babies.

Strategies: Continued support and commitment to Peninsula Regional Council Family Violence statement; training of Indigenous health workers; community control over health services; establishment of quality birthing centres; acceptance, knowledge and use of traditional healing practices in conjunction with mainstream health services; review transport provisions for health service clients; establish Cape York Sporting Institute; production of parenting material; establishment of substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»

Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences.

Implications for the continued conceptualization and measurement of family treatment engagement in adolescent substance - use treatment settings are discussed.