Sentences with phrase «drugs killing people»

The plot starts out like this: wealthy pharmaceutical CEO Arthur Denning (played by Anthony Hopkins, spotting some mid-life crisis slick hair) is under investigation for one of his drugs killing people.

They have to be very, very potent, first of all, but they also can't be toxic — you don't want your drugs killing people rather than the flu.

The drug killed people left and right.

Not exact matches

And the opioid epidemic is at the forefront of this crisis, with fears the drugs could kill nearly 500,000 people over the next decade.

Half a million people develop drug - resistant TB each year; a UK parliamentary group in 2015 projected it will kill 75 million and cost the world $ 16.7 trillion over the next 35 years.

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

«With the drugs we use, we could kill a healthy person within minutes,» says Mary Dale Peterson, M.D..

This is a drug that has killed more than 400 people in our province already this year.

Stealing cars at 13, in and out of jail in his teens, killed his first person when he was 17 and got away with it, used and sold drugs to kids, killed an entire family just for fun, and then we'll say that was the last thing before he headed off to his ultimate plan.

As Andrew explains, it is the most insidious development yet in the opioid crisis: «It — because of its potency — is killing so many more people so much more rapidly than the prescription drugs or even the heroin did.»

More than 2,000 other people have also been killed in drug - related crimes and thousands more murdered in unexplained circumstances, according to police data.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

Mexicans chopping off heads for drugs, Iranians killing people because of religious beliefs UGH!.

That's not much of a problem, unless you want drugs to kill people, which many states do.

President Trump has doubled down on the idea of applying the death penalty to some drug dealers --» big pushers, the ones who are really killing people.»

Have read many stories about children killing their parents sisters brother in the same way as in the game specially that ice hooky thing... killing people with to score points and sure drugs with such games are behind most crimes...

Alcohol and the War on Drugs have killed more people in the last 60 seconds than marijuana ever has in the last 5000 + years (0).

Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.

Prescription drugs have killed way more people than the «munchies».

And for those who run scared from raw milk, think of all who DIE from medications in the hospital, killed by drunk drivers, and have permanent organ damage from drugs that are marketed to «help» people... just to name a few.

POWER is a potent DRUG and when used by bad people, can kill.

A few days ago, the Food & Drug Administration officially stated that raw milk should be avoided, since it can «sicken and kill people.»

We would be able to protect millions if not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill around the planet too.»

Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.

44 more people are killed each day by a drug overdose.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

President Trump said the nation's opioid epidemic — which is killing more than 100 people each day — is the «worst drug crisis in American history» and declared it a public health emergency, pledging the nation's full resolve in overcoming it.

«The seemingly innocent drug that's being legalized around the country — in this city, people are killing each other over marijuana,» Bratton said.

ALBANY - A Staten Island state senator said Thursday that the drug fentanyl kills far more people on average every day than the recent Las Vegas mass shooting, yet doesn't generate nearly the same outrage.

The conversation dredged up everything from the lack of front - line doctors, nurses and therapists to treat addiction, the lack of long - term treatment beds, and the need to better market recovery services, to the simple fact that more potent drugs are hitting the streets and killing people before anyone has time to save them.

There, he spent 4 1⁄2 years prosecuting gang - related killings and what he said was the first federal prosecution of people selling bath salts, a designer drug.

They hope to create a human model that could help speed up the development of new drugs and vaccines against the disease, which sickens millions of people and kills thousands each year.

If the drugs also kill polyps in people, they could be taken less frequently than drugs that merely inhibit growth, limiting side effects.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 19Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 19drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 1980s.

ADVERSE drug reactions are a major cause of death, killing 197,000 people annually in the European Union and upwards of 100,000 in the US.

He says: «Tuberculosis continues to kill almost one and a half million people worldwide and is becoming increasingly resistant to drugs used to treat it.

Drug - resistant infections kill an estimated 700,000 people each year according to a recent report on this issue commissioned by the British government.

However, the BCG vaccine was developed 86 years ago, and TB, with increasing drug resistance, now kills more than 1.5 million people each year, second only to HIV / AIDS as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

It still kills some 600,000 people each year and has outwitted eradication efforts, having developed resistance to previously popular drugs and, thus far, eluded vaccine - induced immunity.

A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated that by 2050, antibiotic - resistant bacterial infections will kill 10 million people per year, if no new drugs are developed.

When people die from overdoses of opioids, whether prescription pain medications or street drugs, it is the suppression of breathing that almost always kills them.

Baliga wants to learn how tuberculosis — which sickens nearly 10 million people per year and kills 1.5 million — evades drugs within the body.

Two drugs used to treat asthma and allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia that can kill up to 40 percent of people who contract it, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have found.

«When people come into treatment for drugs and alcohol, we are not treating another addiction that has a significant chance of eventually killing them, which is tobacco use,» said Guydish.

Children and young people admitted to hospital in England with injuries related to self - harming, drugs or alcohol faced an increased risk of killing themselves over the following 10 years, according to new research.

The influenza virus kills 20,000 to 40,000 mostly elderly people each year in the United States, and a bad flu season can cost more than $ 12 billion in lost productivity, medical care, and drugs.

The researchers hope to turn this novel compound, described in the latest issue of Current Biology, into a drug to prevent heart failure due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, which kills about 75,000 people each year in the United States.

For years, United States public health officials have watched nervously as drug - resistant superbugs marched around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

To help bolster its campaign against an epidemic of opioid abuse that now kills about 90 people a day, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year called for help from an independent advisory panel.