Sentences with phrase «more illicit»

Across every category — inhalants, marijuana, and amphetamines — girls in father - only households used significantly more illicit substances than girls in mother - only or dual - parent households.»

Those who broke - up also used more illicit drugs, drank more alcohol, binge drank more, and smoked more marijuana in the previous 30 days.

So does a slightly stronger, more illicit drink.

To be fair, some aspects of his basic argument are sound — the term «adult film» is now exclusively related to... well, adult films of a more illicit nature, not mature dramas like Don't Look Now.

Considered by many in the know to be a good introduction to Straub - Huillet, the film at least gives subscribers a chance to sample the two before having to look to more illicit means to see the rest of their work.

Many more illicit releases went unreported, state regulators acknowledge, when companies dumped truckloads of toxic fluid along the road or drained waste pits illegally.

You start your new life performing odd jobs around town for your cousin — making deliveries and handshake deals — but the pressures of capitalism begin to force Niko (you) toward more illicit activities.

Not exact matches

Oregon produces between 132 tons (120 metric tons) and 900 tons (816 metric tons) more marijuana than what Oregonians can conceivably consume, the report said, using statistics from the legal industry and estimates of illicit grows.

Their top targets include a Senate bill that would include digital currency in an update of money - laundering laws, requiring more entities to police potentially illicit transactions.

Beyond illicit marketplaces like Silk Road, there's much more to see.

Specifically, the casino was accused of failing to report to the IRS gamblers who cashed out more than $ 10,000 in a single day — a red flag for law enforcement officials tracking illicit cash flows.

Although the lack of jurisdiction over Bitcoin and its links to money laundering and illicit marketplaces have raised more than a few eyebrows, the currency offers a simple way for legitimate businesses such as small retailers and professional service providers to accept payments for international sales without facing onerous credit card fees or exchange - rate surcharges.

Like any method of marketing to your customers, the more time you spend honing your skills, the more interaction you will illicit from your community.

Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span, to nearly than 13,000.

The closure of Silk Road in October, the online marketplace that allegedly allowed more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency, is cited as another major driver.

This summer law - enforcement agencies in 99 countries cracked down on illegal online pharmacies, confiscating 10.1 million illicit pills with an estimated value of US$ 36 million and shutting down more than 13,700 websites.

Reddit has launched a mobile app, built out internal teams to clean up the site's problems with spam and illicit content, and hired more than 100 staffers.

EU ministers want «to curb more effectively the illicit trade in cultural goods,» the draft document said.

To him, anonymity clearly means that it can be used even more conveniently for funding terror activities and other illicit trades such as drugs and weapons.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

Just because your actions illicit an emotional response from someone doesn't make you «more powerful» or removes their omnipotence.

They have made their profit and will only produce millions more, so none of us should give a darn what a hate monger like Rev. Terry Jones wants to do for his illicit motive.

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

«Only thing that makes more money than selling seeds is illicit narcotics and fireworks,» says Duffy, who's also peddled time shares, vitamins, and exotic reptiles.

The warmth and spiciness illicit fond memories of gingerbread houses, cut out cookies, cake and more.

According to the guardian, the player «was more interested in attending the University of Kansas, but Guardian - 1 would need to repay the illicit payments in order to do so.»

The stimulation phase illicits more let - downs of milk and the expression phase is the most efficient in emptying.

What would happen if we had more options than simply staying in a sexless marriage, having an illicit affair, or divorcing?

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.

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

Clients in the home birth group were more likely to report the use of tobacco during pregnancy than the midwife comparison group and were more likely to report the use of illicit drugs during pregnancy than the physician comparison group.

«If the milk flow or supply has decreased due to less frequent feedings, baby may be tugging at the breast to try to illicit another letdown or get more milk.

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission estimates there are more than 260,000 firearms in Australia's illicit firearms market.

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

We're talking about ridding the party of the establishment class - ridding Washington of the Washington elite monsters that have given us this illicit government that people just can't stomach any more.

A federal jury found Joe Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, guilty in March 2018 of taking more than $ 300,000 in illicit payments in exchange for official favors doled out to COR Development in

A federal jury found Joe Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, guilty in March 2018 of taking more than $ 300,000 in illicit payments in exchange for official favors doled out to COR Development in Syracuse and Competitive Power Ventures, which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County.

Secrecy hinders criminal investigation and fosters criminality and corruption such as insider trading, market rigging, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, the illicit funding of political parties — and much more.

More than 220,000 have been killed in the ensuing conflict which became every time more intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal groMore than 220,000 have been killed in the ensuing conflict which became every time more intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal gromore intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal groups.

The complaint against Silver — that he allegedly hid more than $ 4 million in illicit income — was tied both to his job as one of the state's most powerful individuals and his role as an attorney.

It ignores the facts - that illicit tobacco has been in sustained decline for more than a decade, and that the claimed relationship with health measures like plain packs or tax hikes do not stand up to scrutiny.

Silver, who was the leader of the state Assembly for more than 20 years, is accused of two schemes that earned him more than $ 4 million in illicit fees over 12 years.

In addition, smokers are more likely to take illicit drugs than non-smokers are.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

«People involved in illicit activities such as illegal drug use and drink driving are more prone to overestimate the prevalence of their behaviour in society.

More than a decade of data indicates teens have become far less likely to abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results of a national survey analyzed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

We do know that people who experience strains, like sex assault, are more likely to use illicit drugs, and we certainly need to be mindful of halting an already nationwide epidemic of opioid and other drug misuse.»

If we stopped looking at this as an illicit drug epidemic and looked at it more as a poisoning epidemic, we would address it differently,» Ciccarone said.

They found that patients given the medication buprenorphine were more likely to engage in addiction treatment and reduce their illicit opioid use.

Other civil libertarian positions include support for at least partial legalization of illicit substances (marijuana, etc.), a strong demarcation between religion and politics, and, more recently, support for gay marriage.