Sentences with phrase «illicit drugs showed»

Other illicit drugs showed five - year declines, such as synthetic marijuana, hallucinogens other than LSD, and over-the-counter cough and cold medications.

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He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows...

According to the National Institutes of Health, in 2012 statistics showed that just under 6 percent of pregnant US women use illicit drugs during pregnancy, nearly 9 percent drink alcohol and nearly 1...

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

When the researchers tracked one city over a month, they found that use of «recreational» illicit drugs such as cocaine spiked on weekends, whereas other drugs such as methamphetamine showed a consistent presence in wastewater.

In recent years, chemists worldwide have shown that it's possible to detect both legal and illicit drugs in wastewater and rivers.

The nationwide data show that people with cLBP have higher rates of illicit drug use, and those with a past history of illicit drug use are more likely to be current users of opioid analgesics.

«This is very consistent with data from the [U.S.] Drug Enforcement Administration that shows a great increase in the trafficking and availability of synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl over the past few years,» said lead researcher Christopher Jones, of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

An academic report shows that the role of illicit bitcoin trade in drugs and weapons is decreasing, and cryptocurrency exchanges now account for the overwhelming majority of transactions.

One year after treatment, these adolescents showed significant declines in alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drug use, as well as reductions in criminal activity and other deviant behavior.

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.

The work of David DeGarmo, Gerald Patterson, and Marion Forgatch shows convincingly that learning how to improve parenting reduces mental health problems.79 Marjukka Pajulo and her colleagues have argued that strengthening mothers» positive connections to their children is likely to reduce their dependency on illicit substances as the rewards of successful parenting build neural pathways that compete with the desire for drugs.80

Previous studies suggested that early childhood trauma can lead to an array of negative health outcomes and behaviors, including substance abuse, among both adolescents and adults.22 — 25 For example, childhood physical and sexual abuse has been shown to be associated with illegal drug use.26 — 28 Although these studies provide evidence that most substance abusers come from abusive homes, many of these studies have taken a «categorical» approach to examine the relationship between 1 or 2 forms of these childhood exposures and subsequent drug abuse; few studies have examined illicit drug use and abuse in relation to multiple disturbing or stressful childhood exposures.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office, 2016 — PDF download) showed that men are more likely to take illicit drugs than women This partly explains the higher mortality rate from drug misuse in males, but does not explain the sharper rises seen in males in recent years.

Subjects in both intervention groups showed significant improvements in their conduct and reductions in their use of illicit drugs from pretreatment to posttreatment, and these results were maintained at 6 - month follow - up.

Tobacco and illicit drug use showed significant accelerated growth.

In addition, girls in the LIFT intervention showed lower growth rates in tobacco and illicit drug use than their male counterparts.