Sentences with phrase «cocaine use as»

I guess Obama's cocaine use as an adult should be an issue too!

How about Obama's cocaine use as an ADULT?

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A light April snow is falling as he tells me he used to drive commercial trucks up from Texas in the 1990s with packages of cocaine, smuggled from Mexico, hidden inside television sets.

«Excess dopamine (as with cocaine use) can lead to euphoria, so perhaps oxytocin - mediated dopamine release is responsible for the feeling you describe.»

These atrocities against Christians has been going on for nearly a decade as Muslim gangs have used this region to smuggle cocaine from S. America to Europe.

The media usually portray cocaine and crack use as a black ghetto phenomenon.

They were closing to observe Shabbat, which we think admirable, and we mean that, even if when raiding their apartment the police found 900 glassines of heroin, 335 oxycodone pills (of an estimated 23,000 they allegedly acquired using prescription sheets stolen from local doctors), as well as cocaine, Xanax, Suboxone, Klonopin, and a sawed - off shotgun.

«I used Dagoba organic 87 % cacao chocolate (if you like dark chocolate, this stuff might as well be crack - cocaine), coconut oil, and cashew butter (pretty sure we discussed this at your birthday party, but I make my own with roasted cashews, agave nectar, and either coconut or safflower oil depending on what I have at the time).

Then Scoville gets down to the real nitty - gritty: «Moreover, the pharmacist should remember that such conditions as are found in opium or cocaine habitues (not to say drunkards), often originate in the use of a prescription containing one of these drugs in some form, originally prescribed for a legitimate purpose, but renewed from time to time until the habit is established.»

But Lance, who was already using marijuana and dabbling in speed and cocaine, says, «The truck drivers were as bad [a bunch] of junkies as anybody you ever met.»

The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against the use of marijuana during pregnancy and while breastfeeding: «Street drugs such as PCP (phencyclidine), cocaine, and cannabis can be detected in human milk, and their use by breastfeeding mothers is of concern, particularly with regard to the infant's long - term neurobehavioral development and thus are contraindicated.»

Some of these risks, such as anemia, slow maternal weight gain, stressful work habits, smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs like cocaine, can be rectified during pregnancy.

Illegal drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines, and prescription drugs used for a nonmedical reason, can harm a developing baby.

For example, don't smoke or use illegal drugs, such as cocaine.

With his days as an FBI informant under the microscope again, the Rev. Al Sharpton insists he never used cocaine.

The newspaper accused him of paying for male escorts, discussing the use of recreational drugs such as cocaine, and encouraging others to use poppers.

The tabloid said it used the same cocaine swabs as those used by the police after being tipped off by a whistleblower.

After Prohibition began, Congress started to use various «tax - acts» to outlaw substances such as cocaine and heroin.

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.»

Debates about drugs have often lumped «soft drugs» such as cannabis together with «hard drugs» like heroin and cocaine, if not by ascribing the same physiological and social effects to each, then by regarding the soft drugs as a «gateway» to hard drug use.

Cahill added that he was happy that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman addressed allegations made by political gadfly and comedian Randy Credico to Fred Dicker that the incumbent Democrat used cocaine as a state senator in the mid-2000s.

Rockland County D.A.: Narcotics business linked to Puerto Rico BY BILL DEMAREST HAVERSTRAW — Tips from local residents fed up with open - air drug dealing in their neighborhood led to an investigation that has broken an alleged family - run cocaine ring that used the barbershop «Fine Line» as its base of operations, according to Rockland County District -LSB-...]

All 43 police forces in England and Wales currently have the power to drug test people who have been arrested if they are suspected of using Class A drugs such as heroine or cocaine, but only 23 police forces currently use that power.

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.

When the researchers tracked one city over a month, they found that use of «recreational» illicit drugs such as cocaine spiked on weekends, whereas other drugs such as methamphetamine showed a consistent presence in wastewater.

Using an animal model, the research team replicated cocaine addiction by allowing rats to self - administer as much cocaine as they wanted (up to 40 doses) during a six - hour period.

Substance use was defined as use of illegal drugs (heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc.), use of prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or high risk alcohol use.

In rats, the drug also decreases the desire to use alcohol, opiates and stimulants such as cocaine.

The researchers acknowledge that their study was dependent on hypothetical sexual situations, not real - life circumstances, and that participants swallowed the cocaine in pill form instead of snorting or smoking it, as is more typical with street use.

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.

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

Birnbach says that doctors are encountering more such women as crack and cocaine use increases in the US.

Even when the investigators removed the scans of 16 participants who were dependent on alcohol as well as cocaine, the link between cocaine use and brain volume loss remained.

But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) notes that other measures, such as pretrial urine samples from defendants accused of crimes, show that drug use, at least in the D.C. area, has gone down slightly — only 29 percent of adult arrestees had traces of cocaine in their urine in the first six months of 2009, the lowest level since 1985.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, for its part, reported in the same year that 6 million Americans admit using cocaine annually, consuming a total of as much as 457 metric tons in a year.

While this sounds positive, it could mean that such a mouse would use more cocaine to get the same feeling as a control mouse.

Drug use affects oral health through direct physiological routes such as dry mouth, an increased urge for snacking, clenching and grinding of teeth, and chemical erosion from applying cocaine to teeth and gums.

a) In the subsection «Cell type - specific NMDA - R pharmacology in cocaine - induced synaptic plasticity» we now more clearly introduce the Zweifel and Engblom studies as well as the differences between them: both of which used genetic ablation of Grin1 over 1 week but showed different results with respect to DA neuron synaptic potentiation, which was due to methodological challenges with AMP - R compensation.

However, both groups had similar rates of use of other drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, crack, LSD and heroin, the report found.

Regardless of the fact that it has been referred to as the «white plague» and rivals cocaine in its addictive strength, 28 sugar remains a socially sanctioned commodity to sell, eat, or use to celebrate and lavish on children.

Various conditions and medications can lead to secondary hypertension, including: Kidney problems; Adrenal gland tumors; Thyroid problems; Certain defects in blood vessels you're born with (congenital); Certain medications, such as birth control pills, cold remedies, decongestants, over-the-counter pain relievers and some prescription drugs; Illegal drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamines; Alcohol abuse or chronic alcohol use; Obstructive sleep apnea.

Commonly known occurrences include use of statins, as well as use of illicit drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, 5 and abuse of prescription opiates.

Using illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines, and taking prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons can harm your baby if you use them while breastfeeding.

The two drugs are naltrexone, used to treat alcohol and cocaine addiction, and bupropion (known mainly as Wellbutrin), an antidepressant, which also helps people quit smoking.

Houston's life ended tragically in 2012 when she accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors in her death.

As well, the script also contains several strong sexual expletives, lots of alcohol use and one depiction of a man snorting cocaine.

It wasn't, but Wax knows that a stand - up guy like Reece wouldn't ever imagine dragging along a vase full of cocaine to use as a bargaining chip.

The tests are not designed to place a criminal label on an offender but to serve as an intervention to help put a stop to teens who have decided to use drugs, The substances that will be detected in the tests include Meth, cocaine, marijuana, oxycodone, ecstasy and pharmaceutical - strength steroids.

The Board notes that the label «narcotics» is commonly used assigned to describe a class of real - world drugs that include such proscribed substances as cocaine and heroin.»

Andy Thomson, the designer of the Sustain Minihome, used to describe propane (bottle gas) as the «crack cocaine of the tiny living movement» because of the dependence on it for the real hit of heat it provides.