Sentences with phrase «drug addiction results»

Drug addiction results from adaptations in specific brain neurons caused by repeated exposure to a drug of abuse.

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This industrialization has backfired, resulting in air and water pollution, almost total destruction of the island's agriculture and a host of social ills — such as crime and drug addiction — typical of industrial societies.

As a result, prisoners simply continue their addiction in prison, where drugs are plentiful thanks to corrupt guards and wily visitors.

The Governor, who also noted that the services rendered to beneficiaries of the CADAM initiative were free of charge, said with the quality of facilities at the new rehabilitation centre, he was optimistic that many lives that had been compromised as a result of drug addiction would be redeemed, stabilised and given a new hope for a better and meaningful future.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

According to the authors, these results suggest that drug use should be removed as a barrier to interferon - free HCV therapy for patients being treated for opioid addiction.

With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for cocaine addiction.

Results from this study support previous findings that beliefs can alter a drug's effects on craving, providing insight into possible avenues for novel methods of addiction treatments.

To help bring down both these and the human costs of addiction, our new insights could help educate adolescents about the risks of recreational drug use and experimentation, discouraging these behaviors as a result.

Marijuana, like other drugs of abuse, stimulates brain dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens (1, 2), which is a mechanism believed to underlie the rewarding effects of drugs (3 ⇓ — 5) and to trigger the neuroadaptations that result in addiction (reviewed in ref.

Not only will they have to take more drugs to remove their pain, but this can result in a dangerous addiction.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

In the years leading up to Painter's cervical spinal fusion surgery — the result of deteriorated discs — in 2011, after a lifelong run with drug and alcohol addictions, his relationships with many of the artists at the foundation of Patrick Painter, Inc., grew strained.

Where, for example, a registrant or member suffers from an alcohol or drug addiction, a regulator must accommodate that disability to the point of undue hardship when addressing professional misconduct resulting from that disability, or when addressing the registrant's competence, or when acting under any provision relating specifically to addictions that may impair the professional's ability to practice, e.g., under sections 33 (4)(e) and 39 (1)(e) of the Health Professions Act.

The court noted that Stewart's breach of the Policy, and the ultimate termination of his employment as a result, was not attributable in any part to his addiction but to his decision not to comply with the Policy by disclosing his drug use.

If during the course of investigating a complaint the respondent registrant claims an addiction to drugs or alcohol as a reason to explain his or her otherwise unprofessional if not criminal conduct, or if the regulatory body's investigation committee has some reason to believe that a registrant is addicted and that addiction may be the primary cause or a contributing factor to the resulting unacceptable behaviour, then proceeding blindly to a disciplinary hearing without first proposing some form of consent resolution to address the registrant's underlying problem is not a wise path to take.

Farr made a good point about the rage claims — are they a drug side - effect or the result of being deprived of an addiction?

«No benefits will be paid due to Injury or death caused by, contributed to by or related to the following and / or their treatments and / or complications thereof: Sickness; Suicide or intentional self - inflicted Injury or poisoning; War, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.»

For any claim arising out of illnesses or accidents that the Insured Person has caused intentionally or by committing a crime or as a result of drunkenness or addiction (drugs, alcohols).

(2) results from the Insured's alcoholism or addiction to drugs or narcotics; but not addiction which results from the administration of those substances in accordance with the advice and written instructions of a Licensed Health Care Practitioner;

London About Blog LEAP UK is a global network of law enforcement figures who seek alternatives to failing, punitive drug laws.Our mission at LEAP is to reduce the multitude of unintended harmful consequences resulting from fighting the war on drugs and to lessen the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction by ultimately ending drug prohibition.

Addictions, whether to a substance (alcohol, drugs, food), a result (gambling, workaholism, excessive exercise), or a person (relationship dependency), have the same core source... loss of self... and this is what has to be healed if the addicted person is going to gain true freedom from the addiction.

Part II: Identifying the Warning Signs In Part I, we looked at a marriage that dissolved as a result of the wife's failure to deal with her drug and alcohol addiction.

Panic disorders can also develop as a result of, or in addition to, other illnesses such as depression and drug addiction.

Over four decades we have expanded to treat a broad range of mental health challenges resulting from trauma, domestic violence, physical, emotional and sexual abuse, relationship issues, alcohol and drug addiction, and much more.

Parent alienation is a crime for the children who suffer such an aweful act of hate against the other parent the mental harm and alienation could be and usually is unreversable for the child to which the results can be seen in drug addiction, suicides, and crime cause by a child being separate from there loving parent by the parent who just wants revenge.