For cocaine users, a rolled up $ 20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug.
Not exact matches
That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list
for marijuana
users, who leads in
cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.
(But the government's own statistics indicate that
for every 104 people who have used marijuana, only one becomes a regular
user of
cocaine, and less than one becomes a heroin addict.)
«Crime in the streets» was Nixonian code
for keeping white people safe from poor minorities, just as «crack babies» justified draconian prison sentences
for inner - city
cocaine users 20 years later (their white suburban counterparts went to rehab).
Those same MPs who have
for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis,
cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising
users.
Now, in a government - funded study
for which Johns Hopkins investigators recruited a small number of otherwise healthy regular
cocaine users through advertisements and word of mouth, results point to «impatience» as a clear barrier to condom use in those who are sexually aroused because of the drug.
Birnbach said that
for a pregnant woman who is known to be a
cocaine user and must have a Caesarean, an epidural or spinal anaesthetic is safer.
But among
cocaine users, the rate of shrinkage was almost twice that of the non-drug-using group (about 3 milliliters per year versus 1.7 milliliters
for the non-drug-
users), the team reports today in Molecular Psychiatry.
After adjustments
for age and race, researchers showed that former and current
cocaine users had a 45 % increase glaucoma risk.
«Sentencing disparity
for cocaine under attack; Crack nets
users more prison time than powder drug»: This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle.
As
for claims by former employees Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo — who are standing trial accused of using misusing the former couple's credit cards — that Nigella was a habitual
cocaine user while married to him, Saatchi said: «Like you, I like proof.