Sentences with phrase «against drugs at»

SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations against drug trafficking when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called war on drugs.

Daiichi Sankyo's press release comes in the wake not only of Ranbaxy's highly unusual criminal guilty plea and $ 500 million in fines and penalties — the largest ever against a generic - drug maker — but also a lengthy Fortune article that exposed for the first time the depth and extent of the fraud charges leveled at the company and the knowledge of senior company executives.

At first he denied the charges against him, but after the Doctor charged with tipping him off about a death in a clinical drug trial plead guilty, he changed heart.

There is also no real plan to address the emergency at this point — only broad pledges to overcome this crisis and become the generation that wins the war against drug abuse.

At the time, the DEA's Diversion Control Division was ramping up enforcement efforts against the nation's wholesale drug distributors — including Sunrise — warning them and drug manufacturers that they would be held accountable if they failed to report suspicious orders.

A 24 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and drug - paraphernalia possession after 3 grams of marijuana and a «one - hitter» pipe were found April 7 at Orland Square Mall.

In the event that a child is caught using drugs or alcohol, a league should not take disciplinary action against the child unless the drug or alcohol offense occurred at a league - related function (game, practice, party, meeting, etc.).

A 23 - year - old Frankfort woman was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and drug paraphernalia possession after 1.3 grams of marijuana and a glass marijuana pipe were discovered during an early morning May 14 traffic stop at LaGrange Road and 171st Street.

A 23 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis possession and possession of drug paraphernalia during a Feb. 6 traffic stop at 108th Avenue and Georgio Lane.

A 19 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating local ordinances against cannabis and drug - paraphernalia possession after one - half gram of marijuana and a marijuana pipe were discovered during an April 15 traffic stop at Highwood and Brookhill drives.

«At that time this was against the resistance of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

This was due to the response of the owners of the attacking dog, who in some cases used verbal abuse against blind & partially sighted people, some appeared to be under the influence of drink or drugs and in one case the owner of an aggressive dog laughed at a guide dog owner during an attack on his guide dog.

Cole is the first Democrat to publicly announce a bid against Collins, whose fifth year in Congress has been marked by controversy over his investment in an Australian biotech company that critics said could have benefited from his work on a bill aimed at speeding clinical trials of new drugs.

The State Coordinator, NYSC Ekiti State, Mrs. Nwano Eze Ukgha who put the number of youths registered in the new batch at 2,066 warned the corps members against indulging in cult activities, consumption of illicit drugs, and other forms of unwholesome acts on the camp as erring members would be handed over to the camp court for trial according to the by - laws.

Authorities in Montgomery County, PA, announced criminal charges against entertainer Bill Cosby stemming from a woman's accusation that he drugged and abused her at his home in Cheltenham Township, a suburb north of Philadelphia, in 2004.

Operation High - Rise nets 40 arrests Press Release edited from Rockland DA's Office Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced at a press conference on Monday the arrest of 22 individuals and the filing of criminal charges against 18 others on a variety of drug - related charges as part of a large scale undercover narcotics investigation -LSB-...]

In his words, «The wide acceptance of NYSC Scheme both at the national and international levels is borne out by the noteworthy contribution of Corps members to such exercises as the electoral process, the effective nationwide campaign against HIV / AIDs, Road accidents, Drug Abuse, Human Trafficking, Corruption, Illiteracy and the implementation of various aspects of the SDGs programme.

Governor Cuomo was against making the drug available to smoke at the time, but advocates have said smoking the drug would make it easier for them to regulate their dose.

«When we talk about people that are making bad decisions, be it drugs, or violence against other community members, there's a reason why they are doing this and we need to be looking at the mental health of our community.»

Among their priorities: local funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.

Against the backdrop of increasing drug trafficking at the nation's international airports, the Nigeria Police High Command said Tuesday it would deploy its K9 Dog «trailers» to the Abuja and Lagos International Airports while the same will be done at the Kaduna airport soon to take over when repairs start in Abuja.

Last night, at the launch of a new campaign to «stop glorifying drug use in the media,» Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro spoke out against enemy No. 1: Lady Gaga, who appears to have smoked a joint onstage in Amsterdam last week.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Randolph Nesse and Kent Berridge, psychiatric investigators with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reported in Science that medicine may never win the war against drug addiction because «it is rooted in the fundamental design of the human nervous system.»

Powers started at UNC and, during her second year, heard Cohen give a talk about using antiretroviral drugs as a population - level preventative measure against HIV transmission.

At the same time the papers supported unvetted «off - label» uses for HRT that were not approved by drug regulators, including healthier skin, protection against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and a generally higher quality of life.

«There's a huge, unmet clinical need for new approaches against staph skin infections because of declining antibiotic development and rising drug resistance,» says Lloyd Miller, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

As the fight against drug - resistant infections continues, University of Leeds scientists are looking back at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics.

The idea is to target microbes at different points in their life cycle, thus minimizing their ability to evolve a defense against a drug and become resistant.

The researchers showed how gelsolin works at the molecular level to protect cancer cells against a widely used chemotherapy drug called cisplatin.

Researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have developed an alternative treatment in which virus - specific cells protect patients against severe, drug - resistant viral infections.

Phase I / II clinical trial results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK + non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58 of 78 ALK + patients responding to treatment, including 50 of 70 patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor.

Chemogenomics is a new concept where drug design and screening is conducted at the genome level for selective drug discovery effort against one target among a large family of related proteins / receptors.

When all the evidence is weighed together, Prozac, Paxil, and other such popular pills seem to be at best weakly effective against depression — an argument Kirsch presses in his new book, The Emperor's New Drugs.

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

«The ability of MMV048 to block all life cycle stages of the malaria parasite, offer protection against infection as well as potentially block transmission of the parasite from person to person suggests that this compound could contribute to the eradication of malaria, a disease that claims the lives of several hundred thousand people every year,» said Professor Chibale, Founder and Director of H3D, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery Research Unit at UCT, and senior author of the paper.

Once again, researchers at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center have extended the reach of the immune system in the fight against metastatic melanoma, this time by combining the checkpoint inhibitor tremelimumab with an anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody drug.

In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal model.

The first such drug, called ipilimumab (Yervoy), developed out of Allison's basic science research, showed much lower response rates against advanced melanoma than those obtained with targeted drugs, but long - term follow - up found that 22 percent of those treated with Yervoy survived at least four years, unprecedented results for the disease.

The other study showed how using a combination of drugs at increased potency could prove an effective therapy against glioblastoma by inhibiting the PI3K and MAPK cellular pathways.

At this point in time we are doing site - directed virtual screening against these sites, which may result in some sort of promising anticancer drug.»

The larvae are also permeable to small molecules, which will allow scientists to batch - test different drug compounds against the infection relatively quickly and easily, said co-author David Tobin, Ph.D., assistant professor in molecular genetics and microbiology and immunology at Duke.

What's more, the women in both the heparin and control groups also received injections of the drug for 42 days after birth, potentially helping to protect them against blood clots that may manifest themselves at that point, but possibly diluting the results — making it appear that heparin was not as effective as it may have been.

At the same time, he strongly advises against recreational use of the drug.

«Despite strong evidence against the use of codeine in children, the drug continues to be prescribed to large numbers of them each year,» said Sunitha Kaiser, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco and lead author.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

One argument against the NHS supplying the drugs is that many of those at high risk of HIV wouldn't need PrEP if they used condoms.