But the biggest complaints are about the way
the drugs affect a person's thoughts.
The course teaches drivers how alcohol and
drugs affect a person's body and mind, the legal and societal consequences of drinking (or using drugs), and their effect on driving.
The course also teaches about Texas DWI laws, how alcohol and
drugs affect a person's body and mind in general, and their impact on the driving task.
If an angry or
drug affected person came to the clinic intending to harm staff, everyone would be at similar risk.
Not exact matches
With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to
people affected by the war on
drugs.
In the past, researchers have looked into how one component of the experimental
drug — GLP - 1 receptor agonists —
affects people with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
If you're talking about a
drug that
affects only 500 to 1,000
people, that means regular pharmacies are not going to carry these medicines.
Studies have found that longer sentences do not have appreciably greater deterrent effects; many serious crimes are committed by
people under the influence of alcohol or
drugs, who are not necessarily thinking of the consequences of their actions, and certainly are not
affected by the difference between a 15 - year and a 30 - year sentence.
And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the
drug in ways that disproportionately
affect low - income citizens and
people of color.
With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for
people affected by the War on
Drugs.
People attempt to influence government policy on how we deal with issues
affecting all of society — including criminals and
drugs — based on rule books like the Bible and Koran.
It's because the right portrays
drugs as a «brown
people problem», the same way they tried to pretend AIDS is something that only
affects g a y
people.
Since our church, Mosaic, meets weekly in downtown, just blocks from Skid Row, we have had difficult moments with broken
people who have been
affected by tragedy and are under the influence of
drugs, but we have also seen remarkable transformation partnering with those in our community who are experts in helping those who are homeless get the help they need.
Caution is advised in
people with diabetes or low blood sugar, and in those taking
drugs, herbs, or supplements that
affect blood sugar.
Some
people argue that sugar
affects the brain like a
drug and can be addictive to certain individuals.
Congress has passed some laws to
affect some portions of that (such as banning clearances for
people who are actively using illegal
drugs), but the laws give extreme discretion to the President.
A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions
affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a
drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.
The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a
person if, by stimulating or depressing the
person's central nervous system, it
affects the
person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of
Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»
New statewide rules for distribution of Naloxone is
affecting one central New York agency that trains
people to use the
drug, also known as Narcan.
VOCAL - NY grassroots volunteers organize around issues that disproportionately
affect people of color, including HIV / AIDS, the
drug war, and mass incarceration.
Genetic variation
affects how
people respond to other
drugs as well.
They say that the
drug — used by pregnant women for morning sickness until it was discovered to cause severe birth defects —
affected more
people in the United States than thought, and caused a wider range of deformities.
We currently do not know how these genetic risk factors
affect the chemistry of the brain and cause specific symptoms, so it is not yet possible for scientists to design
drugs to relieve symptoms shown by
people with a particular genetic variant.
Because zebrafish have a similar brain chemistry to humans, how they respond to certain
drugs might indicate how the same
drugs will
affect people.
Previous studies in this field have looked at
people who already have psychosis, but this is the first study to look at healthy
people and to examine their acute response — or how the
drug affects their minds.
These
drug - bug interactions could make microbial genes just as important as a
person's genes for predicting how a
drug will
affect someone, says Matthew Redinbo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Lord Victor Adebowale, House of Lords and Chief Executive of Turning Point, a social care enterprise supporting
people affected by
drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with learning disabilities
I think we will also be able to use stem cells in vitro to screen new
drugs and see how they are likely to
affect the
people taking them, making prescriptions safer and more accurate.
Taffe and his colleagues also suspect that initial bingeing may be a predictor of individual liability for addiction, which normally
affects only a minority of
people who try a
drug.
Developing broad - spectrum
drugs for the battlefield has proved difficult because regulators are more accustomed to evaluating
drugs that target one specific disease, and
drug companies prefer to focus on diseases that
affect many
people rather than on obscure pathogens that could serve as bioweapons.
Gould doubts that the sex of the
person administering the
drug affects how well it works in a depressed patient, but it's never been tested.
But there is a new hurdle: now that
people affected by Marfan are aware that a potentially effective
drug is out there, says Chien, «you have to convince
people to enter a study knowing that they have [only] a 50 % chance of getting the
drug.»
Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new
drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that
affects 200,000
people per year in the United States.
«We hope this technology will in future enable researchers to design personalised diets or
drugs that can efficiently target problem areas in the gut, to help the millions of
people worldwide that are
affected by digestive disorders and diseases.»
In order for early intervention of addiction to be possible, the study has deemed it essential to identify the biomarkers which may make a
person more vulnerable to
drug addiction, due to these particular areas of the brain
affecting decision making and impulsivity.
It may also help explain why some
people affected by itch are unresponsive to commonly used antihistamine
drugs.
Dr Cornelia de Moor and her team have a three - year grant of # 260,000 from the medical research charity to investigate cordycepin as a new type of
drug that has potential to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis, a common joint condition that
affects more than eight million
people in the UK.
A new study used MRI to show how ADHD
drugs affect the brains of healthy
people.
And they suspect that gut enterotypes might
affect how
people react to different
drugs and diets.
At the same time, this is also knowledge that can help to develop
drugs which can stop or slow the development of the diseases,» explains Morten Gersel Stokholm about the sleep disorder which most often
affects persons aged 50 - 70, and more frequently men than women.
Researchers used data from different
people's genotypes and metabolism to build personalized models that simulate how a
drug will
affect a particular set of cells in the body.
PDP
affects more than 50 per cent of
people with Parkinson's at some point in their condition and antipsychotic
drugs are often used to treat this psychosis, yet there is little evidence to support their use.
Indeed, their combined phenotypic screening and target - identification approach enabled them to quickly discover, characterize and carry out preclinical tests of a potential new
drug for obesity - linked diabetes: a complex metabolic disorder that
affects 347 million
people worldwide.
Getting blood transfusions has become commonplace; no approval from agencies such as the U.S. Food or
Drug Administration or European Medicines Agency is needed, and in the
affected countries in West Africa many
people have survived Ebola, meaning there can be a ready supply of the serum.
This is clear from the fact that the third
drug in the study, sodium nitroprusside, does not
affect endothelial cells, but still produced different effects in the veins of black
people and white
people.
Last week at the 23rd International Conference on Subterranean Biology in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he demonstrated how
drugs that help
people with schizophrenia and autism similarly
affect the fish.
The findings should also pave the way for studies into genetic variants that influence the susceptibility of
people with African heritage to common diseases, or
affect their responses to commonly used
drugs.
Amphotericin B (AmB) is the main active ingredient in the most effective
drug used to treat leishmaniasis, a disease which in the Western world mainly
affects dogs, but in developing countries
affects over 12 million
people, with more than 70,000 deaths per year.
The bleeding disorder
affects people throughout the world, but global accessibility to therapy is limited by cost, the need for trained medical personnel and possible complications associated with needle - based
drug administration.
The findings reveal surprising new insights into malaria biology and pave the way for the development of more effective
drugs or vaccines for a disease that
affects hundreds of millions of
people around the world.