Sentences with phrase «most powerful drug»

One of my favorite quotes is by author Rudyard Kipling when he said, «I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.»

While members of the world's most powerful drug cartels, mobs and undercover groups converge on the sale site, the girls try to uncover the conspirator before the names of thousands of people in the Witness Protection Program are decoded.

As the BBC put it in 2014, «the Russian mafia is believed to control some prime real estate in Panama City while the Sinaloa Cartel — perhaps the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the world — brings its cocaine from Colombia via Panama on its route north.»

More likely, she was just skittish about the fact that her husband, Joaquín Guzmán, is the C.E.O. of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, a man the Treasury Department recently described as the world's most powerful drug trafficker.

«I think it's fair to say that Mexican drug cartels are the most powerful drug - dealing groups in the United States,» Campbell added, «except that their effect is more indirect and delivering drugs to the street dealers.»

Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel is arguably the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere — and in the world.

«It is absolutely intriguing this lifestyle change can have as much effect as the most powerful drugs available to us now,» U.C.S.F. geneticist Christopher Haqq said during the news conference.

If you can accept it as a much smaller scale puzzle game then Big Pharma is actually really good, and while you might find yourself tiring of it quite quickly the hours you do spend spinning machines around and planning out new production lines are satisfying, especially when you first begin putting together the vast collection of equipment and belts required to create the most powerful drugs, such as a cancer vaccine.

Yet, fear is also one of the most powerful drugs known to humanity, giving new depth to the way we perceive the world around us and showing us our own frailty more intensely than ever.

Not exact matches

Unlike chemotherapy, which involves administering powerful drugs that kill both cancerous and healthy cells (most healthy cells can repair themselves), immunotherapies harness the power of the immune system to help it identify and knock out just the cancerous cells.

Although many drug lords have fallen, a glaring exception is Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin «El Chapo (Shorty)» Guzman, Mexico's most powerful trafficker, who under Calderon has expanded control over the most lucrative smuggling routes.

USADA also became the drug - testing agency of choice for fighters advised by Al Haymon, who is now the most powerful person in boxing.

In fact, most conventional wisdom suggests that legalization actually makes illegal drug cartels less powerful because more legitimate businesses will be able to enter the market.

«A civil war has broken out among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising price of medicine.»

Providing women who take a powerful acne drug with a fact sheet about contraception while visiting the dermatologist can significantly improve their awareness of the most effective birth control options and may prevent unintended pregnancies and birth defects that can be caused by the drug, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published Feb. 4 in the journal JAMA Dermatology.

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

«Hospital patients get the broadest spectrum, most powerful antibiotics,» he says, but they are also «in an environment where they get exposed to some of the nastiest, most drug - resistant pathogens.»

The TSRI researchers confirmed the drug's powerful stimulant effects in rats and found evidence that it could be more addictive than methamphetamine, one of the most addictive substances to date.

The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science — a one - two punch for illuminating the physical properties of potential drugs that inform new design principles for safer, improved delivery platforms.

Most urinary tract infections are easily cured with standard antibiotics, but in some parts of the country as many as 20 % only respond to a combination of powerful drugs.

Their most powerful tool in this job is the randomized controlled trial, a type of experiment in which researchers separate participants into two or more groups and subject some of them to the intervention to be studied, like a new drug or surgical procedure.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

Wahl seeks to determine how cancers originate and progress, and why tumors become resistant to even the most powerful anti-cancer drugs.

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this drug...

In most people, the line between use and abuse quickly becomes way too thin and motivated by the perpetual desire for bigger gains, they end up risking their life with irresponsible use of this powerful drug.

Most painkillers contain the drug acetaminophen, which is a powerful pain reliever and a fever reducer that can be especially toxic for the liver.

But what most people may not know, is that some of the most powerful pharmaceutical drugs on the market, are made from plant extracts or based on natural, nutritional compounds.

Most greens products are considered safe, but you must read the labels carefully as they can contain many ingredients, and some such as herbal extracts can have powerful interactions with prescription drugs.

When the most powerful actives are removed from plants to create pharmaceutical drugs, other plant constituents were discarded.

Most pharmaceutical drugs have evolved through the powerful active constituents in herbs, something that surprises many people.

Unfortunately, those drugs belong to Hagen Kahl (Anthony Hopkins), Germany's most powerful kingpin.

For instance, to even in the most powerful country, America, it has not been easy to fight the war against drugs.

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.

In the past, the pharmaceutical industry has been one of the most powerful opponents to patent reform on the grounds that it could weaken incentives to develop new drugs.