Sentences with phrase «in cocaine users»

However, he emphasises that even this type of local anaesthetic, during which the woman remains conscious during the operation, is not free of risk, but can lead to very low blood pressure in cocaine users.

Not exact matches

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

Severely addicted humans may in some ways resemble those experimental monkeys who will starve themselves to death if supplied with, unlimited cocaine, but the vast majority of users are not in such danger (and alcoholic humans also will drink themselves to death)

«Crime in the streets» was Nixonian code for keeping white people safe from poor minorities, just as «crack babies» justified draconian prison sentences for inner - city cocaine users 20 years later (their white suburban counterparts went to rehab).

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

Studies showed a huge percentage of users of hard drugs (like cocaine) had smoked marijuana earlier in their life.

The Solution to the Economic Crisis is NOT to place a former cocaine user like Obama in charge of the World's Largest Economy.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / fotokon Although cocaine makes people feel more alert and on top of things in the moment, it can leave users vulnerable to a much slower brain in the long run.

Among shelter users in Toronto, 40 per cent reported current drug problems, with marijuana, cocaine and opiates the three most frequently used substances.

In his trial, Kosten found that 50 percent of cocaine users had cocaine - free urine when tested 8 to 16 weeks after vaccination, compared with 35 percent of those who received a placebo shot.

In a bid to see if cocaine users» «impatience» extended to nonsexual situations, the researchers offered the participants a hypothetical choice between receiving a small amount of money that day or waiting — either a day, a week, a month, six months, a year, five years or 25 years — before receiving $ 100.

«The bottom line is that cocaine appears to increase sexual desire, and even though users who are on cocaine report being likely to use a condom if they had one in a risky sex situation, if a condom isn't available, cocaine makes people less willing to postpone sex to get a condom,» says Johnson.

Now, in a government - funded study for which Johns Hopkins investigators recruited a small number of otherwise healthy regular cocaine users through advertisements and word of mouth, results point to «impatience» as a clear barrier to condom use in those who are sexually aroused because of the drug.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This might hinder the ability to interact in social situations, but it may also help explain why cocaine - users report higher levels of sociability when intoxicated — simply because they can't recognise the negative emotions».

Compared with drug - free people of the same age, the cocaine users also showed proportionally greater volume loss in prefrontal and temporal areas — the very areas that control the functions impaired in drug abusers.

«First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing.»

But among cocaine users, the rate of shrinkage was almost twice that of the non-drug-using group (about 3 milliliters per year versus 1.7 milliliters for the non-drug-users), the team reports today in Molecular Psychiatry.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with significant coronary stenoses in asymptomatic African American chronic cocaine users.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with development of subclinical coronary artery disease in HIV - infected African American cocaine users with low Framingham - defined cardiovascular risk.

In ways that drugs of abuse — such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin — hijack the brain's reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro - chemical and behavioural evidence suggests that sugar is addictive in the same way, toIn ways that drugs of abuse — such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin — hijack the brain's reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro - chemical and behavioural evidence suggests that sugar is addictive in the same way, toin the same way, too.

As a whole, these findings extend previous research [31], [32] by showing that an intense sensation of sweetness surpasses maximal cocaine stimulation, even in drug - sensitized and - addicted users.

«Sentencing disparity for cocaine under attack; Crack nets users more prison time than powder drug»: This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle.

«Accepting, as I do, that crack cocaine and methamphetamine are as harmful as heroin to the individual user, I still find no basis on the evidence before me to conclude that the disparity in sentence is a result of heroin being over-punished, rather than crack cocaine and methamphetamine being under - punished,» wrote Justice Nancy Spies in a new ruling from the Superior Court.