Sentences with phrase «epidemic levels of»

WHEREAS, as documented in the PBS film Breaking the Silence: The Children's Stories, there are epidemic levels of abuse and dysfunction in our courts system where espoused judges repeat Richard Gardner's unsubstantiated doctrine and make binding recommendations in conjunction with PAS therapists and PAS attorneys; and

My post-doctoral training in treating trauma and addictions has taught me that this culture is rapidly producing epidemic levels of addiction to pornographic and maritally unfaithful behaviors.

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DHA deficiency may therefore be at the root of widespread declines in cognitive function, increases in mental disorders and epidemic levels of degenerative disease.

The only proof you really need to this fact is the insurmountable amount of carb / fat laden junk food and processed food that we consume as a society that in great part has resulted in the epidemic levels of obesity (1/3 of all US adults) in the United States.

The study's researchers advised that considering the current epidemic levels of insulin resistance as seen in the massive numbers of type 2 diabetes cases and obesity, reducing intake of refined carbs and sugar along with weight control should be a top priority in the public's dietary goals.

Violent crime, terror attacks, and epidemic levels of sexual assault in Europe are «not linked» to mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, blaming «discrimination» and inequality for the phenomena.

Noting that the country faced epidemic levels of prescription drug abuse, the letters also contained more explicit expectations that registrants «know their customers» — i.e., engage in due diligence to ensure pharmacies and dispensers were aboveboard — and that they report and refrain from shipping suspicious orders.

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That level of death led President Donald Trump in October to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

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They created or enabled the Permissive Society that shattered millennia - old values leading to the decline of marriage, a level of narcotics - abuse never seen before in a developed country, an epidemic of sexually - transmitted diseases and the industrial - scale production of bastard children.

Her sister had never ODed before, and without the drug might have ended up padding Ohio's already epidemic - level numbers of painkiller and heroin overdose deaths.

Unfortunately, it is also one of the most sensitive to climate change given its dependence on weather conditions, both directly and through climate - dependent stressors (pests, epidemics and sea level rise).

Lack of nutritional knowledge is driving our obesity and disease laden epidemic to astounding levels.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

The campaign is part of a larger effort by Hilton Worldwide's flagship brand to combat «Vacationitis,» defined as an «epidemic creating high levels of stress and claiming countless hours of unused vacation time as it spreads among employees who have not taken enough time off this year.»

The level of obesity has almost tripled in the UK in the last 20 years and with estimations that 1 in 4 adults will be obese in 2020, it is evident we have a global epidemic; something needs to be done, fast.

Whilst that does not make Cahill immune to criticism the pessimism and moaning from some fans has been at epidemic levels since the first day of the season.

Childhood obesity and Type II diabetes have reached epidemic levels as more and more children abandon the playground or sports field for the comfort of their couches and Play Stations.

Anyone who has read my blogs knows that I question the value of elite sports at the younger levels and have not 100 % bought into the current status quo of high school sports, but pinning the obesity epidemic on schools and travel teams?

Infants aged 6 — 8 months should be vaccinated only if they must travel to areas of ongoing epidemic yellow fever and if a high level of protection against mosquito bites is not possible.

Among teens and younger children, disordered eating has reached «epidemic levels,» according to researchers at the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.

However, with our aging population and unprecedented levels of blue light exposure, the prediction is that we will see AMD reach epidemic proportions in the coming years.

Researchers have discovered that the levels of empathy among college students has taken a nose dive over the years and some describe an «epidemic of narcissism».

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It is time for elected officials at all levels of government to fulfill their moral duty and obligation and end this epidemic.»

The current rate of consultations per 100,000 has not yet hit 200, the official epidemic level.

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

Cuomo has released a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020, which would mean reducing the number of new infections to fewer than 750, below what is considered epidemic levels.

«This epidemic has leveled families, corrupted neighborhoods and brought the glaring flaws of our system to the forefront of our discussions,» he said.

Obesity, the second leading cause of preventable death in the nation, has also reached epidemic levels in New York State.

(3) The rebelliousness of the parliamentary party is at epidemic levels.

As the opioid epidemic continues across the country, one graduate student is working on the collegiate level to provide a support system to treat opioid and other types of addiction on campus.

Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In order to project the impact of proposed cutbacks to U.S. - funded programs in South Africa, which has the greatest prevalence of HIV infection of any country, and the west African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, which has a different kind of epidemic and a different level of foreign aid dependency, the researchers used a widely - published mathematical model along with epidemiologic and cost data from each country to project the outcomes of potential programmatic responses.

He also looked at the impact of behavioral changes that individuals would willingly adopt in the event of an epidemic — such as avoiding public spaces, limiting leisure activities and working at home — in connection with varying levels of intervention.

Since 2007 World Heath Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) have promoted adult male circumcision as an additional means to fight HIV transmission in sub-Saharan countries with a high prevalence of the virus, low levels of male circumcision, and generalized heterosexual HIV epidemics.

More than two in three adults in the United States are considered overweight or obese, with substantial biomedical and clinical evidence suggesting that chronic overconsumption of a «western diet» — foods consisting high levels of sugars and fats — is a major cause of this epidemic.

Although there have been scattered reports of individual patients dying of enteritis necroticans in prosperous Western countries, no real epidemics have occurred among populations living in areas where sanitation levels are high.

A genome - level understanding of how the fungus Grosmannia clavigera, a symbiont of the mountain pine beetle, withstands its host tree's chemical defenses could help ecological modelers better forecast the range and extent of the epidemic

In Latin America, the team not only focused on the 7PET strains that cause epidemics, but other strains of Vibrio cholerae that cause sporadic low level disease.

Currently, Fukuda said the severity level of the global epidemic is «moderate.»

A new study suggests Ontario is nearing ambitious United Nations targets for ending the AIDS epidemics: By 2020, 90 per cent of all people living with HIV should know their HIV status, 90 per cent of all people diagnosed with HIV are receiving sustained antiretroviral drug therapy and 90 per cent of people on ART have a very low or undetectable levels of the virus.

The midcourse of the epidemic, however, is not showing signs of infecting other countries in west Africa beyond the three where it has reached epidemic levels.

«Even though the industry acknowledges that greening has reached epidemic proportions across the state, estimates of the level of infection and its impact on citrus operations are scarce,» the researchers wrote in the paper.

«US opioid epidemic reaches new level of crisis in overdoses, hospitalizations and cost: New study conducted by Ben - Gurion University, Harvard and University of Chicago researchers.»

«Stark increase in opioid - related admissions, deaths in nation's ICUs: Data show opioid - epidemic has reached «new level of crisis,» researchers say.»

In the Campinas metropolitan area, about an hour's drive north of the São Paulo stadium, dengue fever has reached epidemic levels, according to Rosalice Carvalho de Castro, a coordinator of infectious diseases at one of the local health centers.

Yet, when population levels of immunity drop, then these potentially lethal infectious diseases that had been prevented in the past will reappear in sporadic outbreaks or, dangerously, as large - scale epidemics.