"Narcotics" refers to drugs or substances that can be used for medical purposes but can also be addictive and harmful if misused.
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These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one's consciousness (such as coffee, alcohol or cannabis), as entheogens for spiritual purposes (such as the mescaline - containing peyote cactus or psilocybin - containing mushrooms), and also as medication (such as the use
of narcotics in controlling pain, stimulants to treat narcolepsy and attention disorders, as well as anti-depressants and anti-psychotics for treating neurological and psychiatric illnesses).
This versatile hunting breed comes in three colors — yellow, black and chocolate — and because of his aptitude to please his master they excel as guide dogs for the blind, as part of search - and - rescue teams or
in narcotics detection with law enforcement.
Pretty much every mother gets a prescription
for narcotic pain medications after birth, and they rarely cause problems.
A: The use of
narcotic pain medications is one of the biggest issues for chronic pain patients, and I don't think there's a clear answer.
Scientific experiments have shown that refined sugar can trigger the same neurological pathways in your brain
as narcotic drugs, leading to a powerful addiction that can not only dominate your relationship with food, but sacrifice your metabolic health at the same time.
A letter from a coalition of campaign groups and celebrities published today reminds the prime minister that he was part of the home affairs committee in 2002 when it recommended that the then - Labour government «initiates a discussion within the Commission
on Narcotic Drugs of alternative ways — including the possibility of legalisation and regulation — to tackle the global drugs dilemma».
Silk Road accepted only bitcoin for payments, and the man arrested for running Silk Road was charged
with narcotics trafficking and money
All States shall cooperate in the suppression of illicit traffic in
narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances engaged in by ships on the high seas contrary to international conventions.
One of the most important arrests was of 28 - year - old Emmanuel Quezada of 70 Sharp Street, Apartment # 2, Haverstraw, New York, a repeat violent felon and according to Zugibe, a major source of
illegal narcotics for Rockland County.
Dr. Sachs: Caution is advised for nursing women
using narcotic pain relievers because of the potential for adverse effects in nursing infants, and some are not recommended at all for use in nursing women because they are concentrated in breast milk.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe on Wednesday announced that two men have been indicted on drug charges following a two - month undercover investigation into
narcotics trafficking in the Village of Nyack.
Overdoses
from narcotic painkillers like fentanyl can be extremely serious with long - lasting, if not fatal, consequences.
Utah also leads the nation in the use of
narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine - based drugs, the study found.
Mel Gibson's LAPD undercover
narcotics officer Martin Riggs contemplates suicide over a photo of his wife, who died recently in a car accident.
As a young woman under
narcotic effects of forced sedation, you must figure out how to sneak past the wardens of this cruel institution.
When the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society has a high energy, trainable dog like this, they call Barbara Davenport, who has trained more than 450 rescued dogs
into narcotics dogs.
I had been on 12 different meds
including narcotics for severe arthritis, fibromyalgia and lots of back issues, which «mysteriously» nearly disappeared, and was able to get off all the crap.
As a Yorktown Councilman he led the fight to secure funding to revitalize the local
narcotics unit which allows for more efficient and effective coordination between local and county law enforcement entities.
It's 1986 in Florida, and Robert «Bob» Mazur (Cranston) is an undercover
narcotics detective who infiltrates Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking system by posing as a money - laundering businessman.
Across the country this spring, hundreds of high - school students have been arrested because their sale or use of illicit drugs on school grounds was observed by
undercover narcotics agents posing as students.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced at a press conference on Monday the arrest of 22 individuals and the filing of criminal charges against 18 others on a variety of drug - related charges as part of a large scale undercover
narcotics investigation in towns and villages throughout Rockland County.
At this point, Barb has trained over 450 rescued dogs into
narcotics dogs.
Teams of police and correction officers, supplemented
by narcotics detection canines, swept all cells and common areas at the jail and recovered a small amount of contraband.
This epidemic of addiction has left millions of people dependent on illegal
narcotics such as heroin, or to prescription opioid pain relievers like oxycodone (brand name: OxyContin), codeine, and morphine.
No compensation or claim shall be accepted for any death or body injury arising out of event which is a direct result or consequential event of usage of liquor or drug or any
other narcotic substance or an act of self sustained injury or suicide attempt.
A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on
narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.
In a flash he saw himself in a sweatsuit jogging alongside fearless, athletic American
narcotics agents working with him on a complicated investigation into drug trafficking.
«It is in this light that we believe the call by the Senate President for a review of our drug laws is so timely and very welcomed,» Youth Rise said, «We look forward, that under His leadership, that an effective legal and policy framework will be developed to address and ameliorate the menace of illicit drugs, and the abuse of over the counter and
prescription narcotic drugs in Nigeria.»
The core concept, which follows a young man who seems entirely unlikely to participate in an illegal
narcotics ring as he does just that, is intriguing, and the movie's central character, anchored by a really fine performance from the lead actor, becomes a fascinating collection of paradoxes.
Two teenagers are in the grips of the Eastern Regional Police Command for possessing
narcotic substances, believed to be marijuana.
A cell block video captured Hassett sticking out his leg to trip the handcuffed man he had arrested on
narcotics charges last March, police sources said.
The leading interventions try to replace heroin and other
powerful narcotics with less potent opioids like methadone or buprenorphine, which don't produce the euphoria of heroin and are far less likely to lead to overdose.
German police have arrested a Dutch man accused of running an international
narcotics business from his apartment, after seizing drugs with an estimated street value of 3 million euros ($ 3.5 million).
From 1968 - 1975, Mr. Fischer was at the New York State
Narcotic Addiction Control Commission, where he rose from a Parole Officer to Assistant Director.
Will Smith and Lawrence, responsible for the enormous success of the original film in 1995, return as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, two Miami
police narcotics officers who are now chasing a huge shipment of Ecstasy that was transported by water to clubs all over Miami.
In hopes of cracking down on «parasitic» opioid dealers, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn at a news conference announced the re-establishment of a stand - alone
narcotics bureau with three full - time prosecutors.
The story follows a helpless drug mule who turns into an X-Men mutant when she inadvertently absorbs a mysterious
narcotic which gives her access to 100 % of her brain
Due to the central nervous system origins of fibromyalgia pain, Clauw said treatments with opioids or other
narcotic analgesics usually are not effective because they do not reduce the activity of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Gene Hackman's hard boiled
narcotics cop Popeye Doyle attempts to put the pieces of the puzzle together to stop Fernando Rey's Frog 1 and his New York partners» major drugs smuggling ring.
Due to the Australian edition omitting certain loyalty missions that awarded players with
alien narcotics in order for the game to be classified, the edition is now unable to work with the other editions available.
When narcotics police homed in on their suspect in Mato Grosso, agents studied «photographic data with the old facial characteristics of Luiz Carlos da Rocha and the current identity photograph of Vitor Luiz de Moraes, and concluded that Luiz Carlos da Rocha and Vitor Luiz are the same person.»
The Shelby County Drug Enforcement Task Force assisted
narcotics investigators and SWAT with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, as well as U.S. Postal Inspector investigators.