Sentences with phrase «addictive drugs while»

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He argued the drug companies spent millions of dollars to promote the drugs for profit while denying or trivializing their potential addictive qualities.

While most youth using e-cigarettes are dual users, up to a third of adolescent e-cigarette users have never smoked a conventional cigarette, indicating that some youth are starting use of the addictive drug nicotine with e-cigarettes.

While the subjective effects of nicotine and cocaine are very different in humans, the overlapping effects of the two drugs on the reward system of the brain may explain why both are highly addictive substances, the researchers said.

In a landmark case, Purdue was sued in 2007 for $ 600 million for misleading the public about the addictive qualities of OxyContin, while making billions from the drug.

So while some schools will continue to make minor, public - relations - driven, cosmetic changes, only the federal government can cut off the drug money supply that's keeping law schools on their current addictive and self - destructive path.

Some health experts see the current regulatory hiatus on e-cigarettes as no bad thing: They argue that, e-cigarettes are a vital quitting aid for existing smokers; that they are relatively «harmless» when set against conventional cigarettes, due to the absence of tar; and that nicotine, per se, while highly addictive, is a relatively benign drug.

Substance abuse is categorized as the change that take effect to one's brain while under the influence of an addictive drug substance.

In 2014, 97 babies were diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), where the mother uses addictive opiate drugs while carrying the child.