Sentences with phrase «as narcotic»

Her experience as a Narcotic Detection Dog handler and trainer helped with the inception of the ADW Diabetic Alert Dog program.

Scientific experiments have shown that refined sugar can trigger the same neurological pathways in your brain as narcotic drugs, leading to a powerful addiction that can not only dominate your relationship with food, but sacrifice your metabolic health at the same time.

Further tests revealed that the elevated CO2 was responsible, rather than the reduced pH. Although it's unclear exactly how the elevated carbon dioxide leads Daphnia to lower its defenses, the researchers suggest the CO2 acts as a narcotic and blunts the senses.

Nietzsche speaks in one of his more scathing passages of professors as «smoking heads» who use scholarship as a narcotic: «The proficiency of our finest scholars, their heedless industry, their heads smoking day and night, their very craftsmanship — how often the real meaning of all this lies in the desire to keep something hidden from oneself.»

Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent and author of War Is a Force Which Unites Us, describes the seductive quality of martial power as a narcotic that can provoke in whole societies a self - righteous delirium.

Alcohol acts as a narcotic — first, in suppressing the higher mental functions and then, as larger doses are taken, in reducing a person to the animal level and finally to unconscious vegetative immobility.

In Afghanistan, there is a symbiotic relationship between narco - traffickers and the insurgency, as narcotics traffickers provide revenue and arms to the insurgency, while insurgents provide protection to growers and traffickers to prevent the government from interfering with their activities.

TICONDEROGA The Ticonderoga Town Police Department now has an officer trained as a narcotics investigator.

Flynn said Paul J. Williams III, a 21 - year member of the District Attorney's Office, will serve as the narcotics bureau chief, while assistant district attorneys John P. Gerken Jr. and Lauren Nash will staff it.

Highly trained Labradors are used as narcotics, explosives and arson detection canines, while Bloodhounds are used to track lost persons or criminals who fled from a crime scene.

Yet unlike addictions to substances such as narcotics or nicotine, behavioral addictions to the Internet, food, shopping and even sex are touchy among medical and brain researchers.

You can not expect to not have any symptoms of withdrawal when giving up a substance that behaves in a similar manner to us as narcotics.

It has long been documented that opioids (drugs like Vicodin, Oxy - Contin, morphine, and Dilaudid sometimes referred to as narcotics) lower testosterone levels.

The project, which was put into development in August by CBS, is set 15 years after the original, which starred Denzel Washington as a corrupt LAPD detective and Ethan Hawke as a rookie being evaluated on his first day as a narcotics officer.

This film noir masterpiece by the legendary director Orson Welles, complete with restored footage, stars Welles as a corrupt police chief and Charlton Heston as the narcotics investigator who takes him on.

Presence of other illegal activity such as narcotics possession, weapons charges, and violent crime.

Kiah graduated at the top of her class and now two years later, she works with her partner, Officer Justin Bruzgul, as a narcotics and missing persons detection dog for the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department.

For many of the same reasons, they're often used as police dogs where they may see duty as narcotics or explosives sniffers.

Ghost is now in training as a narcotics detection dog for the DOC, and his lack of hearing is no impediment whatsoever.

Tryko is trained in patrol work as well as narcotics detection.

It's known to trigger the same feelings as narcotics — desire, euphoria — and has long been studied in terms of its biological affects on the body.

«If he was laundering the proceeds of a tax scheme or a securities scheme or some other white - collar offense, it would be not nearly as serious as a narcotics offense,» he says.

Organize and review patient records and ensure that right security measures and precautions are followed when providing regulated medications such as narcotics and pain relievers

Not exact matches

Now their increasingly dominant role as fuel thieves pits two of the country's biggest industries — narcotics and oil — against one another.

Since marijuana is still on the federal books as a Schedule 1 narcotic (categorized as dangerous as heroin), banks are wary of working with businesses that touch the plant.

Ramos faces charges of racketeering conspiracy, also known as RICO conspiracy, and conspiracy to aid the distribution of narcotics.

It came crashing down hard on Friday as a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to serve the rest of his life in prison, following his earlier conviction on seven charges related to conspiracy, narcotics and money - laundering.

The agency classified a version of fentanyl called furanyl fentanyl as a Schedule 1 narcotic, its highest level of restriction, in November 2016, and in February the agency added any compound chemically similar to fentanyl to Schedule 1 for at least two years.

A complaint filed in the Southern District of California on Thursday charges Vincent Ramos, the founder and CEO of Canada - based Phantom, with racketeering conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs, as well as conspiracy to distribute narcotics, and aiding and abetting.

For this city has replaced Miami as the primary U.S. distribution point for illegal narcotics — mainly cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine — imported from Mexico.

Guzmán's organization is responsible for as much as half of the illegal narcotics imported into the United States from Mexico each year; he may well be the most - wanted criminal in this post-Bin Laden world.

«The biggest single impediment is the politics of [the border wall],» Buffett told the Arizona Daily Star, adding that he hopes his book will shed light on Americans» increasing demand for illegal narcotics as well as the short - sighted symbolism representing Trump's massive wall.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Its association with crime — namely money laundering and narcotics through the online black market Silk Road — as well as an alarming amount of price volatility has left regulators and financial - market participants wary of its potential implications, and therefore reluctant to embrace it wholesale thus far.

Privacy So you've not too long ago heard about a spot referred to as the Deep Web, and the underground darknet markets (DNM) that reside there providing narcotics like hashish on - line.

Utah also leads the nation in the use of narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine - based drugs, the study found.

God sure as hell didn't save me from 6 weeks in the hospital — so I switched Gods after finding that narcotics did more for me.

It is rather amoral as to the way companies and individuals earn their money, such as traffic in arms and narcotics.

And as we Americans grow more and more wealthy, money is becoming a kind of narcotic for us.

Only after the religious phenomenon has been described as a sigh which awakens concern and as a protest which calls forth sympathy, it is criticized as opium, a sedative and narcotic.

The DJ made a sneering joke as follows: «Europe has invented two narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, and I know which one I prefer».

Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral and central nervous system; they include paracetamol (acetaminophen), the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as the salicylates, narcotic drugs such as morphine, synthetic drugs with narcotic properties such as tramadol, and various others.

As the opening action unfolds — with a number of dramatic homicides at the hands of ruthless escapee Nichols — we meet Ashley Smith, a chaotic drug addict who is halfheartedly trying to escape her own prison of a narcotics - fueled life.

As Senator John Kerry's subcommittee on narcotics reported in December 1988, increased cooperation with foreign governments has neither cut the amount of cocaine entering the U.S. nor led to the destruction of the major smuggling organizations.

It is a quasi-religious political movement that dream of world dominance, as the so called prophet dreamed of revelations under some narcotic influence, I guess.

As Mark Haskins, asenior investigator for New York State's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, explains it, «Basically you have an antiaging clinic with an Internetpresence.

Even those enlightened enough to recognize that addictive gambling is as much a disease as alcoholism or narcotics addiction often forget that gambling carries a staggering extra penalty: the terrifying mountain of debt built up over the years, the thousands upon thousands of dollars owed to sharks and bookies.

It allows the mother to be awake during labor and birth, and it does not depress the newborn baby's breathing as some of the narcotic medications do.

If you're taking a narcotic painkiller and you notice any unusual changes in your infant — such as excessive fussiness or sleepiness — be sure to tell your pediatrician, though it's unlikely it's being caused by your medication.

Some pills, such as blood pressure meds, narcotics, and even an adult tylenol, can can deadly to a toddler / small child.