Sentences with phrase «many addictive drugs»

As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription drug crisis are beginning to target the pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive drugs.

The most addictive drugs, like prescription opioids, are held in a so - called vault and packaged in specially sealed plastic bags by background - checked workers under the gaze of several cameras.

This experimental drug is worth a deeper dive right now because the acute pain market is massive (more than $ 11 billion in just the U.S.), and there's a desperate need for viable alternatives to highly addictive drugs like morphine.

Acquiring customers online is a fickle beast and can be a dangerously addictive drug unless all the KPI's are tracked meticulously.

Religion is like a addictive drug that gives you a temporary high but often ends with disastrous consequences.

Last time I checked alcohol, nicotine and caffeine were legal, addictive drugs so Francis what sayest thou?

For those who like Starbucks, keep in mind they are selling an addictive drug at an exorbitant price.

If we don't look to heaven, bend the knee and pray to the living God, we will cling to visions in which eschatological destruction, hijacked planes and addictive drugs are our basis for understanding our deepest needs.

It's also been noted by psychiatrists that sugar acts like an addictive drug on the brain.

Coffee tugs us into this kind of behavior because it is a drug — almost never an addictive drug, though, but a potentially habit - forming one.

get real yourself IM, we are so overtaxed and underserved and another tax on cigarettes won't do anything but make poor saps who are addicted to the most addictive drug of all time pay more and feel more miserable, or they will buy bootleg cigarettes.

Others are suddenly having to go cold turkey off highly addictive drugs, like crack or heroin.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said marijuana is not «a factor in the drug war,» citing addictive drugs as the key border focus for fighting illegal drugs in the U.S.

The governor's budget director, Robert Mujica, said it's hoped the tax also would discourage the use of the highly addictive drugs.

Much like addictive drugs, power uses these ready - made reward circuitries, producing extreme pleasure.

«By shedding light on the dangers posed by this dangerous and addictive drug, we will help save lives and create a stronger, healthier New York for all.»

I would argue, even ignoring all the other arguments above, that if this was the entirety of the issue with marijuana it should be made legal on the grounds that freedom of choice, even bad choices, should be favored if the harm is minor enough; as shown by our legalizing of other equally or more addictive drugs.

The governor's budget director, Robert Mujica, says it's hoped the tax will also discourage the use of the highly addictive drugs.

She said many vets with PTSD are prescribed strong and addictive drugs like Valium, and Ativan.

Mr Coaker also announced that crystal meth, a highly - addictive drug that gives a similar rush to crack cocaine, had been reclassified from class A to class B.

«We're also seeking information on whether distributors neglected their legal obligation to flag suspicious orders to the DEA and if their employees were provided incentives in the form of bonuses for selling more dangerous addictive drugs.»

She says many vets with PTSD are prescribed strong and addictive drugs like Valium and Ativan.

In announcing the arrests, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said fentanyl «is an incredibly dangerous and highly addictive drug that is finding its way into, and destroying, too many lives in our communities.»

Nicotine from cigarettes is a highly addictive drug that can stimulate cell growth and block cell death — two hallmark characteristics of cancer.

In people, addictive drugs desensitise the brain by raising the threshold of «reward» activity that is needed to feel satisfied: more drug is needed to achieve the same effect.

JUNK food may seem like an addictive drug because it is.

While most youth using e-cigarettes are dual users, up to a third of adolescent e-cigarette users have never smoked a conventional cigarette, indicating that some youth are starting use of the addictive drug nicotine with e-cigarettes.

It's been shown, for example, that sweet foods trigger the same feel - good brain chemicals as addictive drugs.

PLANTS may be spiking their nectar with addictive drugs to lure insects into spreading their pollen.

At the very least, the patients could be counseled to avoid alcohol and addictive drugs, which can complicate the disease.

The results, he says, suggest that at least for some people, giving money to others provides an intrinsic reward that is neurologically similar to ingesting an addictive drug.

Pavlovian memories Addictive drugs cause dopamine neurons, which synthesize and store the neurotransmitter dopamine, to release it, signaling to other brain areas to take note of the context surrounding the drug — the better to replicate the experience in the future.

Morikawa expects likewise from other addictive drugs, such as opiates and nicotine — the common thread: increased dopamine levels.

The type of learning that alcohol and other addictive drugs may promote is best described as «subconscious» reward - based conditioning, much like the classic example of Pavlov's dog.

Dopamine - blocking medications could target not only addictive drugs such as cocaine, but also compulsive behaviors like gambling or eating.

But the authors noted that about 20 percent of middle school students and about 7 percent of high school students who had ever used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.

Addiction - related memories are exceptionally strong and stable, suggesting that addictive drugs remodel the brain's circuitry in a prominent and lasting way.

New research presented by Dr. Jonathan Britt, from McGill University, helps to better understand how reward signals, such as those produced by addictive drugs, travel through the brain and modify brain circuits.

All known addictive drugs lead to the release of dopamine into the striatum.

«The stress response evolved to protect us, but addictive drugs use those mechanisms and trick our brains to keep us coming back for more,» Dani said.

And in still other work that Janda will discuss at the meeting, the Scripps team has made progress in developing a vaccine against captagon, a highly addictive drug consisting of amphetamine linked to theophylline, a drug chemically related to caffeine, that is a major problem in the Middle East.

We know that cocaine is a powerful and addictive drug and an important question remains: does cocaine mess up this process so that when cocaine users are off the drug they feel like other people have more negative emotions?»

12 Can't Get Enough of Your Love: Dopamine is produced in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, the same region affected by addictive drugs like cocaine.

«Studies explain adolescents» vulnerability to addictive drugs.»

Previous research, for example, has shown that a majority of never - smokers given a cigarette or dose of nicotine not only report disliking the effects, but later, when offered a nicotine - containing pill, gum or candy, or a placebo — a classic test of the «reinforcement» abilities of an addictive drug — they chose the placebo.

Alcohol and other addictive drugs activate the dopamine system in the brain which is responsible for feelings of pleasure and reward.

Abstract Pentameric channel - receptors, including nicotinic acetylcholine, glycine and GABAA receptors, play a key role in fast excitatory and inhibitory transmission in the nervous system and are the target of numerous therapeutic and addictive drugs.

Even though cocaine is a highly addictive drug, scientists can use its properties to probe how parts of the brain work.

Precisely where these findings will lead drug treatment strategies is unclear, but this work provides insight into the role of nicotinic receptors in the vulnerability to multiple classes of addictive drugs.»

We measured receptor activity in the brain's reward centers that are known to be activated by addictive drugs.»