Sentences with phrase «cocaine users»

But some heroin addicts do, and 95 percent of cocaine users somehow manage to quit eventually anyway.

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

Many heroin and cocaine users began their drug dependency with cannabis use in their teens.

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

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.

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?»

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.

The New York Times reported on October 1, 1989, that there are more crack addicts among the white middle and upper class than any other segment of the population and far more such occasional cocaine users.

«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).

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

They learned, for instance, that tuberculosis was being spread in Kansas when crack cocaine users blew smoke (along with water droplets containing the TB bacterium) into one another's mouths.

In a bid to see if cocaine users» «impatience» extended to nonsexual situations, the researchers offered the participants a hypothetical choice between receiving a small amount of money that day or waiting — either a day, a week, a month, six months, a year, five years or 25 years — before receiving $ 100.

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.

Xi was looking for a compound that would have the same effect on cocaine users.

A 3D model of merged imaging scans shows the brain areas affected by age (blue) in healthy people (left) and longterm cocaine users (right).

«First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing.»

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.

Human and rat cocaine users respond to signs of drug use even after long periods of abstinence.

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.

After adjustments for age and race, researchers showed that former and current cocaine users had a 45 % increase glaucoma risk.

When scientists compared the two groups of cocaine users, they observed pronounced differences, mainly in specific neuropsychological functions such as sustained attention (required for performing long tasks, such as completing a questionnaire), working memory (used in specific actions, for example, a waiter remembering the order of each table until the time comes to deliver the orders) and declarative memory (storing and retrieving data after a 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.

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.

In his trial, Kosten found that 50 percent of cocaine users had cocaine - free urine when tested 8 to 16 weeks after vaccination, compared with 35 percent of those who received a placebo shot.

«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.

This new breakthrough, published in Clinical Chemistry, comes as a result of the first large scale study of cocaine users and could pave the way for the detection of a range of other Class A substances.

Compared with drug - free people of the same age, the cocaine users also showed proportionally greater volume loss in prefrontal and temporal areas — the very areas that control the functions impaired in drug abusers.

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.

Movie star BRUCE WILLIS fears he has developed a reputation as a cocaine user - because he's always dashing to toilets to pee.The Die Hard star...

They had established that Carl was a cocaine user.