Sentences with phrase «for synthetic drugs»

«The demand for synthetic drugs like methamphetamine and ecstasy continues to rise,» says the RCMP.

Drawing on years of research and the latest information about how nutrition, toxins and genes play a role in the ability to conceive and maintain a healthy pregnancy, Dr. Stephanie is on the leading edge for optimizing your conception plans without the need for synthetic drugs or expensive IVF procedures.

Massages can reduce the causes of this pain, which can be a healthier and more holistic approach than reaching for synthetic drugs or other forms of pain relief.

Jefferson County has seen a 250 percent increase in poison control calls for synthetic drugs since 2011, according to a 2016 State Senate report.

The legislation would be helpful for law enforcement because they won't have to wait so long for a synthetic drug to be listed as a controlled substance, said Rick Trunfio, Onondaga County's chief assistant district attorney.

Not exact matches

In people who are deficient in these nutrients (not uncommon, particularly in those who have been taking synthetic thyroid drugs for years) this conversion doesn't happen optimally.

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

Synthetic oxytocin, which mimics the effects of natural oxytocin on a pregnant woman's uterus, was first marketed in the 1950's, and has largely replaced ergometrine, although a combination drug, called syntometrine, is still used, especially for severe haemorrhage.

Synthetic drugs, for example, might not show up on a screening even though they can be just as dangerous as other drugs.

PLEASANT PLAINS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced his support for a plan to close a loophole that allows drug dealers to stay a step ahead of law enforcement as they tweak the formula to a deadly synthetic opioid to avoid harsher sentencing.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) is pushing for legislation that would ban 22 chemicals used for making synthetic drugs.

The bill sponsored by Wills would address that loophole and make sale of the drug by an individual punishable by a criminal fine of up to $ 5,000 and up to a year in prison, or both, and make a shop liable for civil fines of between $ 1,000 and $ 10,000 per violation for selling any product marketed as synthetic marijuana.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Gov. Cuomo revealed Monday that an arrest was made over the weekend by state troopers for the sale of K2, a powerful synthetic drug.

The Suffolk County district attorney called for efforts to combat what he said is a surging heroin and synthetic drug epidemic following two high - profile drug cases on Long Island.

Recent reports across the nation have detailed multiple arrests of professional football players for using drugs like synthetic marijuana, K2 or Spice, with other instances ending in trips to the hospital for the highly trained athletes.

In light of current loopholes in state law, Senator Klein also announced his first budget priority of the legislative session would be to secure funding for street drug test kits that would enable local law enforcement to better detect the presence of synthetic cannabinoids sold over the counter at local stores and bodegas.

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Katko will host a public forum next week in Oswego that brings together experts for a discussion about heroin and synthetic drug abuse in the region.

Citing improvements in town administration, a ban on synthetic drugs and cancellation of a tax agreement with a controversial affordable housing development in Glasco, Town Supervisor Kelly Myers announced her candidacy for a second term last week.

The New York Department of Health issued new regulations Tuesday that stiffen penalties for the sale or possession of synthetic drugs.

Under state law, a business owner or any other person possessing, distributing, selling or offering synthetic drugs for sale would face up to $ 500 in fines, and / or up to 15 days in jail.

«I remain focused, as I always have, on fighting for central New York's priorities in Congress — working to grow our local economy and strengthen infrastructure, bolstering national security to keep our country safe and addressing the heroin and synthetic drug epidemic devastating our community,» he said.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is suing two local smoke shops for the sale of bath salts and synthetic drugs.

The action plan that the task force has put together calls for identifying and boycotting local businesses that sell synthetic marijuana, organizing a town hall meeting about the drug, and reaching out to and providing services for Bronxites in The Hub who are using drugs.

State Sen. Jeff Klein intends to introduce new legislation that would strengthen the penalties for selling synthetic marijuana in the wake of sales of the drug leading to almost 700 emergency room visits at Bronx hospitals in recent months, according to his office.

For instance, they have found synthetic cannabinoids in some liquids that weren't labelled as containing any drug other than nicotine but were suspiciously expensive.

«New synthetic amino acid for emerging class of drugs.»

Although new synthetic drugs are closely evaluated for high specificity, high efficacy, low toxicity, and good pharmacokinetics, little attention is paid to the possibility that the chemically synthesized drugs may eventually be discharged from the human body into the environment in their original and / or metabolized forms.

For instance, a yeast engineered to churn out the antimalarial drug artemisinin has been hailed as one of the great success stories of synthetic biology.

Researchers in the Rice lab of chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels for new tissue.

«Most synthetic approaches for synthesizing and cross-linking polymeric gels and other materials use catalysts or conditions that can damage sensitive substances such as biologic drugs.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

The very similar synthetic drug sumatriptan is routinely prescribed for migraine relief, and psilocybin is a simpler compound.

Amines are used widely in bioactive molecules, drugs, and various organic materials, and preparing them is one of the most important tasks for synthetic chemists in both academia and industry.

Despite being outlawed in 2012 in the U.S., the synthetic drugs known as «bath salts» — which really aren't meant for your daily bath — are still readily available in some retail shops, on the Internet and on the streets.

The substances introduced by Rice synthetic organic chemist K.C. Nicolaou are similar in their cancer - fighting mechanism to paclitaxel, the drug for which he is best - known, but have superior properties.

A synthetic cannabis - like drug in a pill was safe and effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea in the first large multi-site study of a drug for apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health.

These findings will greatly facilitate mirror - image protein production for applications in drug discovery and synthetic biology.

This discovery provides proof - of - concept for the use of natural GroEL / ES to fold D - proteins for a variety of mirror - image drug discovery and synthetic biology applications.

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Thanks to the organism's creation, synthetic biologists are learning more about customizing cells, such as for development of highly effective drugs and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

A leader in the emerging field of synthetic biology, Amyris is well known for developing a strain of yeast for large - scale manufacture of a precursor to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, for which the Asian plant source is in short supply.

So far only two synthetic cannabis drugs, both for treating nausea, have been approved in the United States.

Seeking to exploit this weakness and develop a new class of antifungals, an international group of researchers screened a synthetic drug library for compounds that target the synthesis of fungal but not mammalian GlcCer.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

Only a couple of these synthetic DNA drugs are on the market, but a number are in clinical trials, including a potential treatment for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

The opium poppy is no longer the starting point for many street drugs in the United States, where deaths involving natural and synthetic opiates hit 33,091 in 2015.

Almost weekly, a new synthetic psychoactive drug comes onto the market somewhere in Europe that can be ordered legally and easily, for example as an incense blend, via the Internet.

With genetically engineered microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, playing an increasing role in the green chemistry production of valuable chemical products including therapeutic drugs, advanced biofuels and biodegradable plastics from renewables, Cas9 is emerging as an important genome - editing tool for practitioners of synthetic biology.

«But for the new drugs, like fentanyl and synthetic cannabinoids, they would have to collect a blood sample and ship it to a toxicology lab.

Now, in a new study published in the journal Cell, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered that a synthetic form of vitamin D, calcipotriol (a drug already approved by the FDA for the treatment of psoriasis), deactivates the switch governing the fibrotic response in mouse liver cells, suggesting a potential new therapy for fibrotic diseases in humans.