Sentences with phrase «been addicted to cocaine»

In 1983 he spent a month in drug rehab after having been addicted to cocaine for four years.

It's great to say its a «choice», but children do not choose to be born to parents who abuse them or who were addicted to cocaine and so are born with birth defects.

This argument is like saying being addicted to pot is better than being addicted to cocaine, so I'll be addicted to pot.

Following an investigation during which Stewart stated he believed he might be addicted to cocaine, the employer terminated his employment for breaching the Policy and for compromising the safety of the workplace.

It was later revealed that Stewart was addicted to cocaine at the time of the incident.

Not exact matches

The treaty, which is still in effect, requires all countries part of the treaty to «prevent and combat» drugs and drug addicts and to enforce punishment against the unauthorized cultivation, production or possession of opium, coca (and its derivative cocaine), marijuana and other illegal substances.

«What they're saying is that when it comes to debt and to the prospects for future debt, the U.S. is no «clean dirty shirt,»» before colorfully continuing «The U.S., in fact, is a serial offender, an addict whose habit extends beyond weed or cocaine and who frequently pleasures itself with budgetary crystal meth.

Rabbit is enraged, for instance, that his son has turned out to be such a failure, a cocaine addict who has pilfered the profits from the family's once - thriving Toyota dealership.

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)

«Over time, the effect on the reward centre in the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts go back for another line of cocaine.»

By the age of 15 I was addicted to crack cocaine, running the streets of New York doing everything and anything for another hit!

As far as I remember Paul Merson was infamous for being addicted to gambling, cocaine and alcohol during his time as an Arsenal player, and it certainly sounds like he had had a few when he ranted about Wenger not buying anyone other than Petr Cech this summer.

Instead, he turned to his mind guru, former Dallas Cowboy linebacker Thomas (Hollywood) Henderson, a former cocaine addict and a drug and alcohol counselor whom Daly met when he was in rehab last year.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

«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 Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed — leading the Journal of American Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»

There are visible differences between the way someone's brain functions when they're actively addicted to cocaine or heroin, and a normal person.

Love research supports the notion that it's psychologically intoxicating to reconnect with a former flame you still feel friendly toward; the brain lights up the same way a cocaine addict's does before a hit.

It turns out that if someone is actively craving cocaine, or if you expose an addict to stimuli that remind the addict of cocaine and activate the craving, what you are doing is increasing activity in an area of the prefrontal cortex called the orbitofrontal cortex.

We didn't find anything that can explain to you from point A to point B why Ozzy can think up good songs or why he is so addicted to cocaine, but we found some things that would be interesting to follow up on.

Finally, convalescing in Paris in 2001 (where he went to be close to his parents and relatives), he read about a study of a muscle relaxant that had stifled the cravings of a cocaine addict.

This «priming effect,» which may be permanent, may contribute to the severity of relapse episodes in cocaine addicts.

Schrock: Some of the rats were making a choice for the first time, but they also used rats that were already addicted to cocaine and they actually weaned themselves from the cocaine because they preferred the saccharine.

When the researchers gave OV329 to cocaine - or nicotine - addicted rats, dopamine spikes were neutralized, blocking the addictive reward response and halting the animals» self - administration of the drugs.

Children born to cocaine - addicted mothers are no more likely than other kids from similar backgrounds to have significant behavioral problems during their first three years.

It's the same advice given to most addicts of other substances such as alcohol and cocaine.

Node Smith, ND A very interesting study on an off - label use of a common diabetes medication for the treatment of cocaine addiction was recently published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.1 The research is specifically addressing the tendency for cocaine addicts to relapse on the drug.

For individuals with a high level of dopamine receptors, they can become addicted to food just as they would get addicted to a drug (7), as modern - day junk foods create a surge of dopamine to be released in the brain (similarly to cocaine, for example).

A more recent study published in The Neuropsychopharmacology Journal found that teens that consume caffeine are more inclined to be addicted to drugs like cocaine as adults.

Ex cocaine addict Jeremy McConnell has been partying with wild pals who «rack up lines of suspicious white powder» and mock his dead mother, grim footage A Los Angeles court room is to hear a bitter legal dispute between Liz Crokin, 37, an author, and Mallory Hill, 59, her older ex-lover, over claims he gave

Hank's exploits with his boss's wife are exposed when Becca and Chelsea get into a campus brawl; Charlie scrambles to keep Marcy away from cocaine - addicted client Rick Springfield, jeopardizing his job.

It is hard not to notice that specific scenes in Whiplash could be pulled straight out of a «recovering alcoholic or cocaine addict» movie.

«Implying that Alex Trebek is a cocaine addict and he's likely to die of an overdose,» explained Wernick.

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex - obsessed, cocaine - addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests.

The lead character, brilliantly played by Sylvie Testud, is quite abhorrent at times, yet one can not resist watching her stumble through life seemingly without a care for anyone around her — and this is before she gets addicted to cocaine and prescription drugs.

I was shocked and dismayed to find that so many of the young men I grew up with had succumbed to the crack cocaine trade and were either addicted to it or selling it, died or were killed for it, or were in jail because of it.

For example, The A1 allele of the dopamine receptor gene DRD2 is more common in people addicted to alcohol or cocaine.

He was allegedly addicted to cocaine and alcohol in the past.

This 8:1 decision the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a Human Rights Tribunal decision that a cocaine addict in a safety - sensitive job, who was fired for violating the employer's policy by failing to report his addiction and then being involved in an accident, was not fired (on the facts of the particular case) because of his disability but rather because he violated the policy under circumstances where it was entirely within his capacity to comply with it.

He is formerly addicted to crack cocaine and alcohol and it is alleged he suffers from schizophrenia.

In one center we visit, half the boys are addicted to crack cocaine.