Sentences with phrase «cocaine addiction for»

He would wrestle with cocaine addiction for years, but «Taxi Driver» spoke to the gritty side of an America in search of itself.

Not exact matches

The country has a festering problem with crack cocaine addiction, because the Colombian couriers distribute the drug as salary to their Belizean assistants, who sell it for a relative pittance on the streets of Belize City.

Those who believe that a four - game suspension for a second offense is a sufficient deterrent are as deluded and naive as Taylor, who wrote in his 1987 book, LT: Living on the Edge, that he had cured his addiction to cocaine by playing a lot of golf.

«Heroin and crack cocaine addiction is responsible for 43 % of acquisitive crime.

The Liberal democrats are to call for the decriminalisation of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine, to be considered urgently by the Coalition Government in an effort to cut levels of addiction.

Perhaps most exciting for addiction research is that these processes may be similar in the transition to cocaine, alcohol and opioid addictions.

In recent years, she has raised eyebrows for proposing that the same neural mechanisms behind cocaine and alcohol addiction also underlie eating disorders that lead to obesity.

With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for cocaine addiction.

We don't have a good drug for cocaine addiction, but we have drugs for alcohol addiction, opiate addiction and a wide range of addictions.

«Potential new treatment for cocaine addiction.»

The experimental therapy, which involves administering a drug currently used in cancer therapy trials, treats cocaine addiction by inhibiting memories responsible for cravings.

A team of researchers led by Cardiff University has discovered a promising new drug treatment for cocaine addiction.

Most people in talk therapy for cocaine addiction, for example, are still using.

There's no approved medical treatment for cocaine addiction: no therapeutic equivalent of the methadone dose, the Antabuse pill, or the nicotine patch.

«Currently there isn't any effective treatment available for cocaine addiction so understanding the underlying mechanism is essential for targeting potential new treatments.»

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several amphetamine - like drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility of treating cocaine addiction with other kinds of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.

Kosten recently completed the first placebo - controlled clinical trial for a cocaine addiction vaccine.

These data indicate that cellular metabolic communication plays a critical role in addiction - related behaviors, which may have implications for new strategies to prevent cocaine addiction.

The same holds true for those suffering from alcoholism or from opiate, cocaine or methamphetamine addiction.

It is possible, even likely, that addiction networks for cocaine and for food operate in different parts of the brain yet use similar mechanisms.

Medications used include naltrexone, methadone, and buprenorphine, which are given for addiction to opioids such as heroin and cocaine.

About half met criteria for cocaine addiction: They had used cocaine for an average of 10 years and had the drug in their systems on the day of the scan, according to urine tests.

While it is not harmless, marijuana causes less harm and involves less risk of dependence than alcohol, tobacco and drugs such as benzodiazepines (which are prescribed as sedatives), cocaine and heroin,» says Enzo Tagliazucchi, an addiction researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

The George lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of humans, rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

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.

Finally, the preference for saccharin was not surmountable by increasing doses of cocaine and was observed despite either cocaine intoxication, sensitization or intake escalation — the latter being a hallmark of drug addiction.

«American Made»: Former TWA pilot Barry Seal transported lots of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the early»80s, which was a great thing for what would become the Medellin Cartel and, for a time, Barry Seal, but clearly not for those lost to addiction and the violence that surrounds the drug trade.

The majority of the Alberta Court of Appeal concluded that the dismissal of an employee, whose cocaine addiction came to light following a post-incident drug test, did not constitute discrimination as the employee had been dismissed for failing to disclose his problem and continuing to use drugs, rather than the disability itself.

Did an employer terminate employment because of addiction to cocaine (raising a prima facie case of discrimination), or for breach of the Policy prohibiting drug use unrelated to his addiction because he had the capacity to comply with those terms (not raising a prima facie case of discrimination).

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.

Choosing addiction counseling and therapy is a vital step for physical dependence on substances, such as alcohol, prescriptions, over-the-counter drugs, marijuana and cocaine.

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