Sentences with phrase «including use of drugs»

Misusers were more likely to meet criteria for substance - use disorder — including use of drugs and alcohol together — and 67 percent actually met or approached criteria for stimulant - use disorder.
The findings held true even after taking account of other influential factors, including use of drugs that can impair bone turnover.
Some sought escape through cognitive deconstruction, including the use of drugs.
Strategies under investigation at this time include the use of drugs, growth factors, anti-growth factors, surgery, and radiation.
Such term does not include the use of a drug taken under supervision by a licensed health care professional, or other uses authorized by the Controlled Substances Act or other provisions of Federal law.
These include the use of drugs to relieve pain and inflammation.
Dog diarrhea treatment may also include the use of some drugs such as anti — diarrheal, anti — helmintics (anti worm), antibiotics, minerals or antidotes that address the underlying cause.

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These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the company's products or an increase in the company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the company's products; the company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»
They also spell out changes to company culture, including prohibiting romances between bosses and their reports and creating clearer guidelines around use of drugs and alcohol.
And then he watched in awe and horror as students began posting intimate and often offensive remarks about their peers — including sexual histories, accusations of drug use, and threats of violence.
Lisinopril is type of drug called an ACE inhibitor that's used to treat heart conditions including hypertension and congestive heart failure.
Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.
And the parasite that causes malaria is gaining resistance to some of the best drugs used to treat the disease, including artemisinin.
Include warnings, not unlike those on drugs or cigarettes, about the dangers of using Facebook and social media so that users fully understand what they are getting into when they use the service.
Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.
The FDA's action cuts off a vital supply line for the company, given that the plant reportedly makes about 70 % of the ingredients that Ranbaxy uses to make its U.S. drugs, including the generic version of Lipitor taken by millions of Americans.
To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.
The FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other suspects ran an encrypted telecommunications service used by more than 20,000 customers to facilitate illegal activities, including international shipments of cocaine and other drugs.
This includes a stem cell research centre, a network of drug discovery institutes and a # 20 million global clinical development fund dedicated to supporting Phase I and II clinical trials; and a # 2 million collaboration between University of Cambridge and University College London that will use donated cells from people with Alzheimer's to test potential new treatments
For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.
Although the code identified a list of banned topics, via its «general principles» («be carefuls») and its «particular applications» («don'ts»), the Hays Office couldn't stop filmmakers from skirting or ignoring its recommendations, which included: no use of profanity or depictions of nudity; no mention of drugs, perversion, prostitution, miscegenation, or venereal disease; no ridicule of clergy or creed, race or nation.
I have seen people use the words of Jesus «judge not» as a shield to allow themselves to participate in whatever destructive behaviors they feel like indulging in, (including child neglect, spousal abuse, drug abuse, fraud, and adultery).
But I think it is long past time to consider the value of other approaches, including the targeted use of drug therapies.
Jang Song Thaek had largely been considered the second in command of the reclusive country, until he was found guilty of charges including attempting to overthrow the government, gambling, drug use and womanizing.
Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.
In Cornwall a document (www.interconmtrust.org.uk?resources / cornwall schools transgender guidance) concocted by the education authority and various groups including, worryingly, the police, announces that a child who thinks that he or she would like to be a member of the opposite sex, should be urged to succumb to the fantasy and begin the process that will lead to the use of physical mutilation accompanied by hormonal drugs.
Most religious people will tell you stories of their past that include heavy drug use.
Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....
USA Todayexplains how the judge struck down many of the new limits, including requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, but «upheld most provisions governing use of pregnancy - ending drugs
«The safety of low - kilojoule sweeteners used in diet drinks is supported by leading regulatory agencies throughout the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Food Safety Authority, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand — as well as leading health groups, including the Australian Diabetes Council and Dieticians Association of Australia.»
Regulatory agencies throughout the world including European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), Food and Drug Administration in the US (FDA) and the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA), consider the appropriate use of caffeine in food to be safe and acceptable.
Sports - Related Drug Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33:1 - 1.
Watch for the warning signs of drug use, including a sudden change in your his behavior or personality, decreased performance in school, or changes in which friends he associates with.
There are warning signs of teen drug use including things like grades dropping, mood swings and loss of interest in their hobbies or family.
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It is also very important to begin communicating with your child to help prevent him from picking up bad habits, including the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs (including the use of inhalants; especially aerosols and glue).
A new study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Gynaecology confirms what many who have undergone a hospital birth already know: the use of the labor - inducing drug pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) leads to great pain and suffering, including serious adverse, unintended health effects to both mother and infant.
Written by a world - renown clinical pharmacologist, Dr. Thomas Hale, this drug reference provides includes everything that is known about the transfer of various medications into human milk, and the use of radiopharmaceuticals, the use of chemotherapeutic agents, and vaccines in breastfeeding mothers.
Negative ways can include but are not limited to use of drugs including alcohol, and expression of anger, which are likely to lead to complicated social interactions, thus causing increased distress.
This book, which includes information on more than 814 drugs, vitamins, herbs, vaccines and their use in breastfeeding mothers is a must - have for all who are in the field of helping mothers breastfeed their babies.
The University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview (UM - CIDI), a revised version of the CIDI, 23 was used to measure the prevalence of the following 4 psychiatric disorders, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised: 24 anxiety disorder (including one or more of social phobia, simple phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder); major depressive disorder; alcohol abuse or dependence; and externalizing problems that included one or more of illicit drug abuse or dependence and antisocial behaviour.
Drugs used in active management have documented risks for the mother, including death, and we do not know the long - term effects of these drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the Drugs used in active management have documented risks for the mother, including death, and we do not know the long - term effects of these drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the drugs, which are given at a critical stage of brain development, for the baby.
There are also reports of newborn drug toxicity from epidural drugs, especially opiates administered via epidural.80 Newborn opiate toxicity seems more likely when higher dose regimes are used, including those where the mother is able to self - administer extra doses, although it also seems that there are wide differences in individual newborn sensitivity.81
These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.
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.
For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.
The FDA issued a policy statement about the use of domperidone in breastfeeding mothers, as the drug passes through to the breast milk; however, many respected medical doctors whose practices focus mainly on lactation indicate that while most drugs pass through to the milk supply, most are safe for both mother and baby, including domperidone.
For men, symptoms can also include anger, loss of libido, engaging in risk taking behaviour, increased hours at work as part of withdrawal from family and increased use of drugs or alcohol instead of seeing treatment for depression.
For further and current information about the use of medicines / drugs (including galactagogues) during breastfeeding (or pregnancy), contact the Medicines Information Centres in your state or the NPS Medicines Line.
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