Sentences with phrase «drug abuse lead»

Not only can drug abuse lead to a variety of hazardous and life - threatening medical problems, it can also significantly affect sexual stamina levels.

In this study, a team of researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse led by Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, set out to fill this critical gap in roadside marijuana testing knowledge.

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This drug slows down nervous system pathways and abuse leads to permanent death of the nerves.

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According to the third thesis in the canonical narrative, a losing struggle in the fetid jungles of Vietnam destroyed American troop morale and discipline; this disintegration led to rampant drug abuse, the murder of unpopular officers, atrocities like the My Lai murders, and a generation of physically and psychologically scarred veterans.

Did the abuse lead to drug and alcohol problems?

Properly used, statistics about higher levels of promiscuity, drug abuse, depression and such amongst gay people lead groups to ask why this is so that we can begin to reverse such troubling threads.

Drug and alcohol abuse may lead to suicidal thoughts and / or suicide attempts or other self - destructive behaviors.

It leads the nation in teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, domestic violence, unemployment, obesity and general stupidity.

These girls lead real lives, lives of pain, abuse, poverty, children, abortion and drugs.

Sean's father, Vineyard founder John Wimber was a selfdescribed former «beer - guzzling, drug abusing pop musician, who was converted at the age of 29 while chain - smoking his way through a Quaker - led Bible Study».

According to our culture, my job as a parent is to defend against that pernicious evil that leads to everything from drug abuse to eating disorders to jail time: low self - esteem.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

Some risk factors that can potentially lead to developmental delays include a mother suffering from depression, other parental mental health issues, violence in the home, drug use / abuse, and / or poverty.

Teen drug abuse and addiction can lead to violent behavior.

Drugs, illness, death, and abuse are the leading causes of this shift in families.

Misuse of prescription drugs can lead to heroin abuse, Village of Grayslake Chief of Police Phillip Perlini recently learned.

Scores of animal and human studies show that early life stress, such as severe early social deprivation, leads to long - term changes in the brain, cognitive and social problems, and heightened susceptibility to anxiety, depression, and drug abuse in adulthood.

Therefore, for a healthy placenta, you are required as a mother to be to ensure that you lead a lifestyle that is healthy and void of drug and substance abuse.

But co-sleeping may lead to an increased risk of SIDS when the parents smoke cigarettes or abuse alcohol or drugs.

• Abortion can lead to «suicidal tendencies» «depression» «drug and alcohol abuse» — all symptoms of «post abortion trauma» — «Post Abortion Trauma» is an invented condition and is not recognised by the medical profession.

In separate press statements issued on Saturday, 30th September 2017, and signed by the President of Youth Rise, Adeolu Adebiyi, and the Secretary of APC Youth Connect, Farida Odinga Suleiman, respectively, the NGOs stated that they were delighted that the President of the Senate was leading the drive to address the menace of drug abuse in the country.

Electronic prescription regulations, which Syracuse University Health Services is required to abide by, aim to decrease prescription drug abuse, but may have led to an increase in heroin usage.

By keeping prescriptions in the household, residents create a dangerous situation which could lead to drug abuse by a member of the family or accidental ingestion by a young child.

In addition to providing greater access to substance abuse services, they also include creating a new crime of homicide for anyone who gives or sells an illegal drug to another when that act leads to that person's death.

This can lead to drug abuse, or even accidental poisoning, especially with young kids,» said Legislator Rath.

Mr Boateng noted that drug abuse and addiction also caused sexual exposure which could lead to teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases that have been major health issues affecting the adolescents in the country.

Advocates for the bill fought that characterization, sending out a volume of medical literature refuting the idea that marijuana use leads to the abuse of other drugs.

He decried the disregard for the traditional institution and the failure of the legal system over the years, saying that the situation had encouraged impunity, religious intolerance and massive abuse of drugs leading to insecurity in many parts of the country.

A rise in drug - related deaths and increases in prescription abuse leading to heroin addiction are some of the reasons for new and innovative tactics.

As recently as February 2017, Cuomo called marijuana a «gateway drug» that leads to abuse of harder drugs.

I am eagerly looking forward to continuing to lead the fight for toll relief, and to work on important issues like prescription drug abuse and the heroin epidemic and the education tax credit, which expands scholarship and programming opportunities.

Keeping unnecessary drugs in the home can lead to many dangers, including abuse or accidental ingestion, especially if there are children present.

Michelle Peace at Virginia Commonwealth University is leading a project that examines drug use and abuse involving vaping, with a view to educating the public and providing information to law enforcement, medical examiners and forensic scientists.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid abuse is a serious public health issue, with drug overdoses identified as the leading cause of injury death in the United States.

And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three - quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug - dependent, not hard drugs.

«Being bullied does not lead to higher substance abuse: Study examines bullying's impact on future drug, alcohol use.»

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

«There is no one blood or oral fluid concentration that can differentiate impaired and not impaired,» says Marilyn Huestis, who spent over 20 years leading cannabinoid - related research projects at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

It is particularly hard to untangle factors such as childhood poverty, abuse and neglect, which also make their mark on brain anatomy and which correlate with more substance abuse, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA Psychiabuse and neglect, which also make their mark on brain anatomy and which correlate with more substance abuse, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA Psychiabuse, notes Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA PsychiAbuse and lead author of a superb 2016 review of cannabis research in JAMA Psychiatry.

Ketamine has also been a drug of abuse and can lead to untoward psychiatric or cognitive problems when misused.

And individual genes in individual regions of the brain would start to show epigenetic alternations that would change the degree to which those genes were expressed, leading to changes in behavior and ultimately to the vulnerability to a drug of abuse.

As early as 1969, these collaborations led to important products - directly, as with the development of diagnostics for drugs of abuse, Abuscreen; or indirectly, through the development of technologies, which later played a key role in the first isolation and characterization of the a-interferons and to Roche's patents for Roferon.

Last year, for example, researchers led by Amy Hauck Newman, a medicinal chemist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland, reported in Neuropharmacology that two of the group's newer D3R blockers, CAB2 - 015 and BAK4 - 5,4 appeared highly stable and potent.

The researchers, led by neuroscientist Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, studied a total of 142 men and women lacking any known history of mental illness or drug or alcohol abuse.

The findings will lead to a better understanding of the dangers of drug abuse on growth and development of children.

Despite continuing reports that methamphetamine abuse during pregnancy can lead to behavioral and emotional problems in children, pregnant women continue to abuse the illicit drug.

Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.

The researchers conducted extensive interviews to understand how truckers» occupational stresses led to depression, drug abuse, and unprotected sex.

This fits with one leading theory of addiction, which suggests that drugs of abuse disrupt the brain's chemistry so that addicts must keep taking the drugs to try and restore things to normal.