Sentences with phrase «hooked on drugs»

Although his life is certainly much happier now than when he was hooked on drugs or working as a department store elf, Sedaris still finds plenty of absurdity in the airports, hotels, book tours and vacation - home renovations that now fill his days.

The children's parents Leone and Michael, both hooked on drugs, Michael

«In South Central, many kids were getting pregnant or were hooked on drugs,» she said.

He said, I have to stay away, because if I get connected, I'm scared I might get hooked on drugs, too.

But their sleazy manager has been getting Donnie hooked on drugs, and when an overdose kills the young bandleader, Richie is devastated.

Researchers found that a pocket near the top of the brain stem may be key in determining whether someone is likely to engage in compulsive behavior or become hooked on drugs like cocaine, which is currently abused by an estimated two million Americans.

«Who gets hooked on drugs?

So how did the poultry industry get hooked on drugs that are dangerous to the health of both humans and companies?

Sometimes, a guy they thought was their boyfriend got them hooked on drugs so that they have to go «turn tricks» for him just to get more drugs.

Unlike the story that this fool tells, I have never been hooked on drugs and my trappings are nothing like what he describes.

You see, he had been in foster care because the mom was so hooked on drugs she couldn't take care of the baby.

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But at the same time drug companies were increasing prices for many drugs, insurance plans have been going through their own transformation, leaving more families like the LePeres on the hook for far more of that cost.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

She went on to tell about her childhood in the Bronx, about friends of hers who got hooked on heroin and other drugs, about the crimes people committed to feed their habits and other needs.

HOOKED BY FEAR AND ADDICTION What keeps most girls on the streets is the fear of being abused or killed by their pimp, and / or their need to keep an expensive drug habit going.

So you can drink, gamble, and party with a hooker on this Dutch island but drugs are forbidden, whereas, in the Netherlands, they are legal.

And while I did the best I could with the cards dealt me (HELLP syndrome), I ended up having to be hooked up to machines and on drugs (magnesium sulfate) that I never knew existed.

The most common methods used to ripen the cervix and get contractions started include: inserting medication into your vagina; putting pressure on your cervix with a small, water - filled balloon; stripping or sweeping the membranes, which means your caregiver uses a finger to separate your amniotic sac from the lower part of your uterus; breaking your amniotic sac with a small, hooked tool; and giving you an IV infusion of the drug Pitocin.

Lamar Odom's near - deadly binge on drugs, hookers and herbal sex supplements has moved two state lawmakers to take a hard look at stopping so - called herbal Viagra.

«Anything can be a gateway drug, so if this is not highly regulated and we don't think about wellness of our young people, then they are very susceptible to being hooked on this,» she continued.

When rats hooked on the common opioid pain medication oxycodone were given the D3R blockers, the animals sharply reduced their drug taking.

But ultimately, he says, Scripps's stability will be decided on how effective Schultz and Kay are in hooking together formerly disparate parts of the drug development pipeline, and how many would - be drugs the fishing buddies manage to snare in their net.

Drug research has got so hooked on working with genetically modified animals that it has lost touch with human disease

Without the pleasurable kick dopamine is thought to provide, researchers assumed that people would be less inclined to get hooked on gambling or drugs (ScienceNOW, 10 January:).

Steve Chassman, Clinical Program Director for LICADD, the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, talks about why people take opiate drugs, how they get hooked and engagement and intervention strategies for adolescents and their families.

The focus was on drugs but as I learned the process of addiction, the changes that occur in the brain prior, during, and after addiction has taken hold, it occurred to me that it is the same process that keeps us hooked on unhealthy food, carbohydrates and sugar especially.

the minimals I have contacted are one of the following: hookers looking for an hourly rate, drug addicts looking for a quick fix, very unattractive or overweight, women looking for a boyfriend - husband on a sugar dating site.

SUBSTANCE USE - A prescription drug bottle is seen on a dining room table (its label is obscured), and a man says that his father was hooked on painkillers (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details).

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

She is on the list but not in an immediate sense — she's probably at the stage, though, where she's paid her dues and the groundwork has been laid so that, say it with me now, should she gain fifty pounds, play a hooker (she kind of did already), a drug addict, a long - suffering wife she'd be ready for Oscar voters to say, okay, it's time.

In this case, we're likely to side with them unequivocally against drug dealers who hook kids on dope and slaughter families.

Chandrasekhar's Thorny undergoes a drastic personality (and biological) transformation after becoming hooked on «Flova Scotia,» a pharmaceutical drug meant to enhance the female libido — but this leads to anachronistic gags in which Thorny acts like a stereotypical housewife from two generations ago: cooking meals for the guys, complaining about how nothing he does is good enough for them, throwing tantrums when he's not appreciated.

These clips, which enable the viewer to feel all the sensations that come with the experience, are as addictive as any drug; even Lenny himself is hooked on «jacking in,» constantly replaying clips of happier times with ex-girlfriend Faith (Juliette Lewis), an aspiring rock star who left him for a record producer (Michael Wincott).

He gets hooked on painkillers after the accident, an addiction that soon leads to harder drugs.

And based on the trailer, these guys know how to get down, dirty and blow off steam — there's no shortage of booze, drugs and hookers.

I've been an advocate for «literary graphic novels» for adults since the 80s but I also know we need more gateway drugs like The Phoenix to get kids hooked on comics as an art form.

We all know companies who enjoy a windfall... only to have management piss it away on beer, drugs and hookers.

Stereotyped behaviors cause the release of endorphins, perpetuating their repetition, and in a sense, the dog becomes drugged and hooked on mindless, repetitive activity.

Ania and I went to buy bread and in one block's distance we saw about 15 tales of insanity, drug abuse and poverty: a homeless man with one leg shooting up on the pavement; an old women dragging 50 filthy plastic bags, vomiting into the sewer grate; five tranny hookers sitting in a hotel stairwell, wearing nothing but g - strings, making cat calls at the passing traffic; a crackhead walking in circles, talking out loud to no one in front of a fruit stand; little boys, none older than 11, all huffing shoe glue out of black plastic bags to get a 10 - minute high; and a group of plump ladies sorting through garbage in the street, looking for old produce that can be re-bagged and re-sold at discount prices.

No amount of «Drugs & Hookers» is going to make you happy, no matter how much money you spend on them.

In a way it is a drug, but it's one the world is already hooked on, so dangers get overlooked and people pointing those dangers out get called dogmatists.

Some opponents of geoengineering dismiss such soft geoengineering ideas as being like «soft drugs»: they trap you into thinking that geoengineering can be good for you so you're more likely to feel favorably toward trying «hard geoengineering» and get hooked on it.

It's no secret what the tobacco companies want: They're waging a multi-pronged assault on a new rule the Food and Drug Administration issued last year for electronic cigarettes and cigars — products that are sold in a huge assortment of sweet flavors and threaten to hook a new generation of kids.

For example, we hooked an HTC One Max up to some speakers and played the new War on Drugs album.