Sentences with phrase «be a cocaine user»

He said that the program already has seen about 100 babies whose mothers have been cocaine users and that among those pregnancies the use often contributed to premature delivery.

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.

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.

Severely addicted humans may in some ways resemble those experimental monkeys who will starve themselves to death if supplied with, unlimited cocaine, but the vast majority of users are not in such danger (and alcoholic humans also will drink themselves to death)

On Tuesday, Liverpool Crown Court heard Stapleton was a habitual user of cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine, cannabis and Spice, who had 108 previous convictions including numerous burglaries, dishonesty offences and drug possession.

«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.

«As anyone who ever fought to help a habitual cocaine user will tell you, once you are an addict, you are always an addict,» Caputo continued.

The Solution to the Economic Crisis is NOT to place a former cocaine user like Obama in charge of the World's Largest Economy.

Three days later, The Sun carried a story claiming that Mr Baldwin had been a heavy user of cocaine.

They also found that among early - onset users, the concurrent consumption of cannabis and alcohol was 50 % and 30 % more frequent, respectively, compared with late - onset users, defined as those who began using cocaine at or over the age of 18.

Then it will have to win the approval of another group of skeptics: heavy cocaine users who are trying to quit.

But so far those users are cocaine - addicted rats.

The vast majority of women targeted under this policy are crack cocaine users.

«The bottom line is that cocaine appears to increase sexual desire, and even though users who are on cocaine report being likely to use a condom if they had one in a risky sex situation, if a condom isn't available, cocaine makes people less willing to postpone sex to get a condom,» says Johnson.

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.

We know that cocaine is a powerful and addictive drug and an important question remains: does cocaine mess up this process so that when cocaine users are off the drug they feel like other people have more negative emotions?»

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

However, he emphasises that even this type of local anaesthetic, during which the woman remains conscious during the operation, is not free of risk, but can lead to very low blood pressure in cocaine users.

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.

For cocaine users, a rolled up $ 20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with significant coronary stenoses in asymptomatic African American chronic cocaine users.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with development of subclinical coronary artery disease in HIV - infected African American cocaine users with low Framingham - defined cardiovascular risk.

In ways that drugs of abuse — such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin — hijack the brain's reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro - chemical and behavioural evidence suggests that sugar is addictive in the same way, too.

The court has taken judicial notice that cocaine is highly addictive, with heavy users facing a significant long - term and... Continue reading →

Both girls had fled their homes, lived on the streets, and were regular users of crack cocaine and marijuana.

«Accepting, as I do, that crack cocaine and methamphetamine are as harmful as heroin to the individual user, I still find no basis on the evidence before me to conclude that the disparity in sentence is a result of heroin being over-punished, rather than crack cocaine and methamphetamine being under - punished,» wrote Justice Nancy Spies in a new ruling from the Superior Court.

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.