Sentences with phrase «as opiate»

Aegis Treatment Centers, LLC., («Aegis») operates one of the largest networks of Narcotic Treatment Programs (NTPs), also known as Opiate Treatment Programs (OTPs), in the nation.

Gluteomorphins and casomorphins inhibit the same areas of brain function as opiate drugs.

We have partnerships with the state of New York to create peer support advocates and family navigators as well as an opiate treatment facility here in Oneida County.

But if you are remotely inclined to attach some higher standards to colleges and universities, if you would like to think of gambling as an opiate of the streetwise and uneducated, the trend is disarming.

Karl Marx's word about religion as an opiate is not easily dismissed.

But the scientists and historians know that the days of religion as an opiate of the masses are numbered.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Those attacking Gutiérez assume that using any of Marx's comments on society automatically brands one a «Marxist,» in the sense of accepting the whole Marxist position — its materialistic view of history, its scorn of religion as an opiate, and all the rest.

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

«So whether it's labeled as an opiate outreach or a homeless outreach or a mental health outreach or an outreach to the hungry hardly matters... What matters is that there's outreach.

Also religion has been described as the opiate of the masses and I believe that is true to an extent, since religion and praying helps to calm one down and provide a time for thought and reflection similar to meditation without the connecting to a higher power thing.

Morikawa expects likewise from other addictive drugs, such as opiates and nicotine — the common thread: increased dopamine levels.

A wide variety of pharmacological interventions such as opiates, benzodiazepines, and prophylactic medications have been described that offer partial relief to migraine sufferers.

We studied oxytocin, and it turned out to be as powerful as the opiates in reducing separation distress.

When evaluating your more natural options for pain — options that do not carry the same risks as opiates, NSAIDS, and acetaminophen — make sure you use products that have published human clinical studies whenever possible — because not all botanicals are created equal.

Opioid drugs have the same narcotic effects as opiates but are not derived from opium, they are synthetic or partly synthetic, meaning the active ingredients (molecules) are manufactured via chemical synthesis.

Brain scans demonstrate that sugar acts on the same part of the brain as highly addictive drugs such as opiates and amphetamines.

Don't count on getting any controlled substances, such as opiates, without a prescription.

Not exact matches

He talked about educating people about the dangers of the drug, decried marijuana as a gateway drug, and called for a «one - penny fee on every milligram of opiates that are produced and sold in America» to be collected for treatment.

And when my dentist yanked out my wisdom teeth, he prescribed me hydrocodone (also known as Vicodin)-- an opiate pain reliever that made me feel happy, floaty, and disconnected.

Religion is so vulnerable to the temptation to be exactly as Karl Marx described it: the opiate of the masses.

For Garaudy, religion is an opiate only (1) when it devalues the problems of this life as relatively unimportant, (2) when it conceives God as jealous of the autonomy of man, and (3) when it has recourse to a God of the gaps who supernaturally intervenes to solve human problems (RE 115 - 17).

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

Certainly the great exemplars of religion have never acted as though they were under the influence of an opiate.

As shown in what you just quoted, Stalin, following Lenin's policies, targeted religious people because it was the opiate of the masses and took away from his authority.

As someone said: «Religion is the opiate of the masses».

In addition endorphins, which are natural opiate - like substances, dull the pain as a result of which the discomfort of intense physical exertion is better tolerated.

The step of faith is not a delusion or an act of cowardice from the harshness of the realities of life, a la Karl Marx's view of religion as an «opiate,» or Sigmund Freud's notion of religion as a neurotic delusion.

In an interesting chapter on the Marxian theme of religion as the «opiate of the people», Jose Miguez Bonino welcomes the criticism «as a valid warning against the self - deception and confusion which so easily creep into a political programme of any sort when it is clothed in religious language».

A pervasive theme of Marxists vis - à - vis religion is the identification of the church with that bourgeois society which will wither away; more to the point, the church is identified as that, opiate which robs people of the revolutionary fervor that causes the withering.

Today television may be challenged as being the opiate of the 20th century fatigued person.

Last century Marx criticised religion as being the opiate of the masses because it suppressed radical challenge to the system.

And yet the opposite fault glares at us from across American Christianity: the idea that suffering is not at all our lot, should be shunned and avoided at all costs, and is a valid reason to hoard what we have, defend ourselves at any cost and as proactively as we think we need to against others, and rely on opiates as a matter of course, without viewing suffering at all as anything that might in any way or to any extent be worth enduring.

Both were reared as Protestants but attacked all religion as «the opiate of the people» and intellectually untenable in a scientific age.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff — Clare Boothe Luce

Below are some ideas to keeping yourself as private as possible while seeking help from your opiate addiction:.

Major League Baseball lists cannabis as a drug of abuse, alongside cocaine, opiates, MDMA, LSD, and a handful of other Schedule I and Schedule II drugs.

It's a minor shock to listen to Bill Bradley in a New York Knicks team film as the camera pans to the crowd's expressions while he wonders if his real role is to provide an opiate for them.»

It was this love and passion that allowed you to savour victory and success to to an opiate - like degree and that eased your pain when that success was fleeting, as it so often is in football.

First off even though epidurals are usually made up of the synthetic opiate Fentanyl and Bupivacaine, Bupivacaine (as anyone with any knowledge of pharmaceutical or chemical names should know) is a local anesthetic not even remotely similar to an opiate.

I knew that I wouldn't use an Opiate or a Caine derived drug BEFORE I was pregnant, so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

Opiates are drugs that are derived from the opium poppy, and range from some of the most addictive painkillers such as codeine, oxycodone, and fentanyl to illicit drugs, such as heroin.

The main risk of opiate use during pregnancy is dependence and that's actually not as hideous as it sounds.

My midwife gave me a selection of peer - reviewed articles about mothers on opiate medication and as she explained to me, there's no evidence that opiate use during pregnancy causes birth defects etc or long term adverse outcomes (learning disabilities etc).

As with neurobehavior, effects on breastfeeding are poorly studied, and more recent randomized controlled trials comparing exposure to epidural and opiate drugs are especially misleading because opiates have a well - recognized negative effect on early breastfeeding behavior and success.103 — 107

Many of the epidural side effects mentioned below are not improved with low - dose or walking epidurals, because women using these techniques may still receive a substantial total dose of local anesthetic, especially when continuous infusions and / or patient - controlled boluses (single large doses) are used.34 The addition of opiate drugs in epidurals or CSEs can create further risks for the mother, such as pruritus (itching) and respiratory depression (see below).

Endorphins, the body's natural opiates, produce an altered state of consciousness and aid us in transmuting pain: and the fight or flight hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline (epinephrine and norepinephrine - also known as catecholamines or CAs) give us the burst of energy that we need to push our babies out in second stage.

Other opiates used as medicines — morphine, meperidine and codeine — are excreted into the milk in minimal amounts and are compatible with breastfeeding, as are benzodiazepines, as long as they are taken in controlled doses..

Given interindividual variation in metabolism of opiates, as well as the risk of maternal side effects in rapid metabolizers, it is prudent to advise women prescribed opiates to monitor for excessive sedation and other side effects.

• Four educational sessions / community forums to be held as part of the Oneida County Heroin / Opiate Task Force;