Sentences with phrase «experience studying a drug»

It is about his experience studying a drug gang in a Chicago Housing Project.

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«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Based on the experience of Prohibition and various studies, drug use would not increase significantly.

I have a bachelor degree in social studies and worked for many years with people at group homes in Denmark and experienced everyday how focused the doctors were on trying to cure the patients with drugs.

ACEs usually refers to the 10 types of childhood adversity that were measured in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, a family member who's an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, witnessing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, and loss of a parent through separation or divorce.

Dr. Newman takes issue with the Belgian study that spurred the advisory, noting that the average age of those who experienced problems with the drug were 75.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

Not only does the study suggest these drugs are safe for this subset of migraine patients, it could also have implications for the nearly 10 million migraine sufferers who experience auras — a disturbance in vision, touch, speech, thinking, or strength that usually precedes a migraine headache.

Just as in Morse's study, van Lommel examined the patients» records for any factors traditionally used to explain near - death experiences — such as setting, drugs, or illness — and found no evidence of their influence.

According to a new study, women experiencing difficulty with time management, attention, organization, memory, and problem solving — often referred to as executive functions — related to menopause may find improvement with a drug already being used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

A 2006 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that people taking long - term, high - dose proton pump inhibitors are 2.65 times as likely as controls to experience hip fractures, possibly because the drugs inhibit calcium absorption.

In a double - blind study, the participant may come to realise that he or she has been given the drug instead of placebo because of the experienced side effects, and this may in turn result in increased expectations of improvement and a better effect is reported.

Subsequent studies have demonstrated that as the animals become addicted to the drug, the positive consequences get reduced and negative effects get exaggerated so the net experience is less positive.

In my experience, this marks both the first clinical trial of an approved drug with an effect on survival in advanced melanoma in the adjuvant setting, and, in this same setting, the first to study an immune checkpoint inhibitor in the adjuvant setting.

Other study participants described experiences of physical neglect, household drug abuse, exposure to violence at home and in their communities and other adverse experiences in childhood.

Past studies have shown that when an expectant mother exposes herself to alcohol or drug abuse or she experiences some trauma or illness, her baby may later develop a psychiatric disorder, including some forms of autism or post-traumatic stress disorder, later in life.

«The novelty of this study is two-fold: We used a preclinical prevention paradigm of a CRF - antagonist (a drug that blocks the CRF receptor in brain cells) called R121919 in a well - established AD model — and we did so in a way that draws upon our experience in human trials.

The analysis, which comprised a total of 3 344 patients, shows that the two studied drugs are clearly superior to placebo with respect to antidepressant efficacy also in patients who have not experienced any side effects.

The study, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, found that in the context of legalization, many marijuana users will try new marijuana products and use edibles, and that doing so markedly increases the odds of experiencing an unexpected high.

The study, presented at The International Liver Congress ™ 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, also showed that the fixed - dose combination of LDV / SOF was well - tolerated, and no patients experienced a serious adverse event considered related to the study drug.

In a new study of how anesthetic drugs affect the brain, researchers suggest that our experience of reality is the product of a delicate balance of connectivity between neurons — too much or too little and consciousness slips away.

These studies have permitted a firsthand look at how academic drug discovery relates to the training and experience gained as a junior scientist.

A new study looks at the question of whether people get caught in the cycle of overeating and drug addiction because their brain reward centers are over-active, causing them to experience greater cravings for food or drugs.

Golomb says one reason many doctors overlook risks and believe statins to be safe is that most controlled studies of statins wind up excluding people who originally begin to participate in a study but stop taking the drug because they experience problems from it; these test participants are then dropped from the study as «noncompliant.»

Indeed, in humans, imaging studies have shown that drugs of abuse increase DA release in striatum (including the nucleus accumbens), and these increases have been associated with the subjective experience of reward (7 ⇓ — 9).

She has over 10 years of experience in the research field in various areas including clinical trials studies, neuroimaging studies, drug addiction, and developmental psychology.

There were more serious adverse events with the study drug compared to placebo, with 4.7 % of pemetrexed patients experiencing grade 3 or 4 fatigue and 6.4 % suffering grade 3 or 4 anemia.

«In keeping with a similar randomized clinical trial previously published in the Lancet and conducted by researchers in Rome in collaboration with us here at King's College London, the STAMPEDE study shows that even patients that after 5 years experienced relapse of diabetes after initial and complete remission of the disease continue to maintain excellent control of their blood sugar levels with minimal or no need for glucose lowering drugs.

The use of newer blood - thinners for patients at risk of stroke may lead to two fewer days in the hospital for those who experience complications, with the same survival rate as the older drug warfarin, according to a data study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Taking statin drugs may lower a person's levels of CoQ10, and some studies have shown that taking this supplement might improve some of the side effects of statin drugs, mainly muscle weakness that some patients experience.

Roughly half of the patients who experience muscle pain after starting a statin eventually begin to feel better as their bodies become accustomed to the drug, says Dr. Phillips, and that could have occurred in the study participants.

Multiple studies have reported that drinkers and former drug abusers experience significantly greater mental impairment when taking alprazolam than other people.

From these studies, we know with confidence that long term ketosis may pose substantial risk for health complications due to the side effects experienced by the thousands of children who have followed ketogenic diets over the years as a means of suppressing seizures unresponsive to drugs and procedures.

It's different from many other addictive drugs, for which most people say they enjoy the first experience and would try it again,» said study author Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Study: Can a human drug help community cats experience less stress during TNR?

That study was based on the 52 - week experience of thirty - two 8 - 10 month old laboratory beagles — not the pet population that would be receiving the drug.

Specifically, allegations claim that the makers failed to sufficiently research the link between increased cardiovascular problems and their drugs, irresponsibly advertised the drugs and encouraged healthy men to take the medications for general symptoms experienced naturally as men age, and failing to warn patients of the already studied link between heart risk and testosterone treatments.

The study concluded that patients who consumed three milligrams of Lunesta experienced «severe impairment of memory and motor skills the morning after taking the drug, compared with a placebo.»

Examples of my experience in such matters are a euthanasia case (2016), where the charge of murder was dropped upon my revealing, at the defence examination, that the presence of a prescribed, very powerful and hazardous drug, (fentanyl), had been missed by both the prosecution study and analysis of the case.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

As noted earlier, Felitti et al. (1998) original ACE study clearly showed that people who reported experiencing a greater number of ACEs were more likely to smoke, drink heavily, and uses illicit drugs; additional studies placed an even greater focus on this linkage.

A study on adolescent drug treatment outcomes showed that adolescents treated in TC programs were more likely than those in outpatient drug - free programs to have prior drug abuse treatment experience, more severe problems, and a criminal justice history.

Recent studies reveal that the approximately 24 million children in the United States living apart from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, abuse drugs and alcohol, experience emotional, health, behavioral and education problems, and engage in criminal activity.

The ANROWS funded project — «Establishing the connection» [between alcohol and other drug use and sexual victimisation]-- presented by Mary Stathopoulos, Senior Research Officer at the Australian Institute of Family Studies called for better coordination between the two sectors to help serve clients experiencing both these issues.

This study examined the association between 10 categories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): abuse (physical, emotional, or sexual); neglect (physical or emotional); and growing up with household substance abuse, criminality of household members, mental illness among household members, and parental discord and illicit drug use.

Thus, illicit drug use may serve as an avenue to escape or dissociate from the immediate emotional pain, anxiety, and anger that likely accompany such experiences.46, 47 The current findings are supported by previous studies that have reported associations between forms of childhood abuse and substance abuse in adolescents.46, 48,49 The adverse developmental and emotional impact of these interrelated childhood experiences, combined with behaviors inherent among this age group, 19 — 21 all may contribute to the especially strong graded relationship that we found in this age group.

Her prior professional experience includes working at the Center for Family Studies of the University of Miami where, having been trained by Olga Hervis, she was a BSFT Facilitator in a research study for «Preventing Drug Use and HIV in Hispanic Adolescents».

According to a major study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 35 percent of children have experienced two or more ACEs, such as sexual or physical abuse or exposure to mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction, or the incarceration of a family member.

Subsequent research on the link between childhood adversity and addiction corroborates the findings from the ACE Study, including studies that have found that people who've experienced childhood trauma have more chronic pain and use more prescription drugs; people who experienced five or more traumatic events are three times more likely to misuse prescription pain medications.