At the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, ambulance drivers get kickbacks for delivering patients, women regularly die from routine pregnancy complications and the chief of surgery's a strung - out
cocaine addict who refuses to allow his black deputy to...
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.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.
(But the government's own statistics indicate that for every 104 people
who have used marijuana, only one becomes a regular user of
cocaine, and less than one becomes a heroin
addict.)
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)
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.
It was very striking: We found we could replicate what happens in the prefrontal areas and the D2 receptors with
cocaine also with alcohol, and then we replicated it in methamphetamine -
addicted individuals, and then we replicated it in individuals
who come from families where alcoholism is very prevalent.
Why does one person
who tries
cocaine get
addicted, while another might use it and then leave it alone?
Beynon would like to see future research examine the effects of more casual use of
cocaine and other drugs, since not everyone
who uses drugs becomes
addicted.
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
Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate agent
who has become
addicted to
cocaine.
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 Knick» is directed by Steven Soderbergh and features Clive Owen as the antihero, a
cocaine -
addicted surgeon
who operates in seedy, late - Victorian New York.
But he's also a pretty decent guy deep down
who works the streets with expertise, and readers will be fascinated by the day - in - the - life perspective of an unrepentant
cocaine addict.
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.