Sentences with phrase «effects of chemical abuse»

Attendees will learn the basics of the adolescent brain, attachment - based parenting, and the negative effects of chemical abuse; explore the common reasons adolescents abuse chemicals; process the complex relationship between attachment disruptions and chemical abuse; and learn interventions for addressing chemical abuse in adolescents using an attachment and trauma - informed lens.

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The doctor may explain the effects of drug, chemical, or alcohol abuse.

Substance abuse refers to the overindulgence in and dependence on a stimulant, depressant, chemical substance, herb (plant) or fungus leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others.1

Further experiments are needed, she says, to determine if chemicals that stimulate BDNF production also blunt the effects of alcohol abuse in newborn mammals.

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

Treatment of nervous or mental disorders, or Treatment in connection with alcohol, drug or chemical abuse, misuse, illegal use, overuse or dependency or use of any drug or narcotic agent; Injury sustained while under the influence of or Disablement due wholly or partly to the effects of intoxicating liquor, chemicals, or drugs or narcotic agent, unless administered under the advice of a Physician and said narcotic agent was taken in accordance with the proper dosing as directed by the physician; unless prescribed by a Physician, except as stated in the Schedule of Benefits for mental or nervous disorders;

While some may believe that substance abuse and addiction occurs to people with low moral principles or lack of willpower, it is actually the effect that the chemical makeup of these substances has on the individual's body and mind.