Sentences with phrase «lead to addiction of»

Loneliness and anxiety can also lead to addiction of different kinds, not only to drugs, alcohol or tobacco but to cars, fashion, housing, shopping; almost anything, in fact.

Not exact matches

When shopaholics are forced to turn to credit cards to finance their addiction, it can quickly spiral out of control and lead to life - altering amounts of debt.

Getting out of the cycle of flying more leading to less time with family leading to flying more leading to less time with family is like breaking an addiction.

Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face - to - face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self - esteem through unfavorable social comparison.

While South Florida is facing an opioid epidemic, the NBC 6 Investigators spoke to some who have been down the path to heroin addiction, and they recall what led them to that place in their life: abuse of prescription pain... Read More

A growing concern about addiction and the effect of gambling on families has led the Navajos and other tribes to reject gambling.

Focus on image and looking a certain way so guys will want you can lead to a very unhealthy life (lots of biographies have been written about the behind the scenes horror of eating disorders and drug addictions).

Knowing that it can lead on to an addiction, in other words to a loss of self - control, why do many people take up drinking?

Trauma caused by childhood abuse and neglect destroys countless lives and leads to addiction and all kinds of problems - many lifelong.

His addiction turned into a blessing in my life... I got so badly hurt in the ministry he directed that it led to my participation in AlAnon and confronting the damage that alcoholism in my family had done to me and taking the responsibility of recovering from that damage.

The alarmist prediction that cheap available drugs could lead to an addiction rate of 75 percent of regular users simply ignores the fact that 35 to 40 million Americans are already using some drugs and that only 3 percent become addicts.

The official organization of higher education, although it achieved the immediate end of the restoration of order, unfortunately led to those characteristics of Islamic education which have come down almost to our time — the addiction to memorization of prescribed texts and study of the same materials in generation after generation.

If marijuana is legalized, the people who decide to use it, better not blame the government for its legalization that may lead to addiction and for any crime committed while under the influence of the drug.

Food cravings, acne outbreaks, and sugar addiction all led her to feel out of control.

Her canning addiction has lead to this wonderful book full of easy to follow recipes to fill your own pantry with jams, pickles, chutneys, and more.

That point of failure was some dissatisfaction that could have led to porn addiction, shopping addiction, depression, anger or other non-infidelity issues.

Through her own personal life experience, in combination with several years of intense training with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.

Over-use of any of the opiate drugs can lead to addiction and opioid use disorder.

One of the nation's leading AIDS researchers and an expert in the treatment of heroin addiction, Dr. Robert R. Redfield, is the leading candidate to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, a leading AIDS researcher and proponent of medication - assisted therapy for addiction, was appointed to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Underage drinking is a dangerous behavior that can lead to serious health problems, including addiction later in life,» said New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Arlene González - Sánchez.

Another example of our success in building on the past is how we are protecting Public Health: Through the creation of the anti-opioid task force, Erie County is leading the way in developing a community - wide response to the scourge of opioid addiction.

The party's social justice taskforce, led by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, says family breakdown is a major cause of drug and alcohol addiction, crime and the failure of many individuals to fulfil their potential in jobs or education.

The Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed — leading the Journal of American Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

A rise in drug - related deaths and increases in prescription abuse leading to heroin addiction are some of the reasons for new and innovative tactics.

«At a time when we are experiencing an unprecedented addiction crisis, and given the reality that Suffolk County leads the State of New York in heroin overdoses, the thought that the District Attorney may have spared drug dealers in order to protect corrupt politicians is beyond horrifying,» said Suffolk County Legislator Tom Cilmi (R - Islip).

The Republican - led Senate's task force on heroin and opioid addiction released a report last week containing dozens of recommendations to address the state's ongoing heroin problem.

Weiner told host Brian Lehrer that the lewd behavior that led to his 2011 downfall wasn't the result of «addiction» or having been abused as a child, but a «blind spot» that he and his family have worked hard to address.

Lead author Tim Wilson, a University of Virginia psychologist, doesn't yet know why we get sidetracked so easily, but he doesn't think our social media addictions or even testosterone - addled male brains are entirely to blame.

«Our study shows that a PAM enhances the effects of these pain - killing chemicals without producing tolerance or decreased effectiveness over time, both of which contribute to addiction in people who use opioid - based pain medications,» said Andrea G. Hohmann, a Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences» Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who led the study.

Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic.

«Factual, science - based information can provide guidance to cannabis users to make choices that reduce both immediate and long - term risks to their health,» says Dr. Benedikt Fischer, Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), who led the development of the guidelines.

Although pain management after surgery continues to rely on opioids, there are concerns that ubiquitous use of opioids has led to a growing epidemic of addiction, dependence, and overdose (ODO).

Knowledge of the cellular and molecular details of these adaptations could lead to new treatments for the compulsive behaviors that underlie addiction

While smartphones harness a normal and healthy need for sociality, Professor Veissière agrees that the pace and scale of hyper - connectivity pushes the brain's reward system to run on overdrive, which can lead to unhealthy addictions.

«In pursuit of pleasure, brain learns to hit the repeat button: New study in mice shows how the brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward; provides insights for treating addiction and obsessive - compulsive disorder.»

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

Although no one doubts that logging long hours on the Internet can erode quality of life and on occasion can lead to ruinous consequences, there is no meeting of the minds on whether Internet addiction is a genuine disorder.

The study helps explain a distinctly human mechanism of cognition, said the lead researchers at Brown University, and could be applied to studying and treating reward - seeking or punishment - avoidance conditions such as addiction or obsessive - compulsive disorder.

This fits with one leading theory of addiction, which suggests that drugs of abuse disrupt the brain's chemistry so that addicts must keep taking the drugs to try and restore things to normal.

The average time to recovery from depression was 9 months longer for adults who had been physically abused during their childhood and about 5 months longer for those whose parents had addiction problems» says lead author Esme Fuller - Thomson, Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair in the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

Opioids carry a risk for addiction and abuse, which has drawn the attention of law enforcement and led to investigations and prosecutions that some physicians and patients say has inhibited access to effective pain relief.

Zebrafish share 70 percent of genes with people and also share similar biological pathways that lead to addiction.

For people, substitution therapies, which include slow acting opioids (methadone), opioids that produce a partial biological response (buprenorphine) or antagonists that block the opioid receptor (naloxone), are the only available treatments for opioid addiction are often leading to high rates of relapse.

The ability to temporarily disable or stimulate parts of the brain with the flick of a switch has led researchers to explore DBS in the treatment of several other conditions, including epilepsy, depression, obesity and drug addiction.

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

Because the genes help produce nicotine's buzz, a team led by Robert Weiss, a geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, wanted to determine if variations in their sequences influence whether people develop a stronger addiction to cigarettes.

This can trigger «a vicious cycle» of increasing marijuana use that in some cases leads to addiction.

This can lead to a «vicious cycle» of increasing marijuana use that in some cases leads to addiction.