Sentences with phrase «of addiction to the drug»

Through God's strength and the support of my church family, I broke free of my addictions to drugs and pornography.

Not exact matches

For all of Pessina's seeming addiction to transactions, there was a broader strategy at work: He was convinced that the drug - distribution business was destined to consolidate.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $ 20 million to the state and issued this statement: «While the company denies the state's allegations, Cardinal Health recognizes that the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is a multifaceted problem driven by addiction and demand.»

The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

«I realized I wanted to be one of the people creating and defining organizational strategy, not just implementing it,» explains the University of Minnesota's Audrey Klein, a foundation head whose research examines treatments for alcohol and drug addiction.

Suicide and drug addiction are tough topics, but let's take a look at the history here and what's being done to help all of us handle these issues better.

Her research pulls the veil off of this dark and mysterious realm — and explains why teens are so vulnerable to addiction, whether that addiction is to drugs or to their smartphones.

Arming first responders with the anti-overdose drug Naloxone is a positive step to give some overdose victims a second chance, but most will soon relapse again unless the root cause of their addiction is addressed.

Addiction therapists agree it can be difficult to distinguish between pathological and non-pathological gambling in contrast to drug and alcohol addiction, where there are obvious signs of intoAddiction therapists agree it can be difficult to distinguish between pathological and non-pathological gambling in contrast to drug and alcohol addiction, where there are obvious signs of intoaddiction, where there are obvious signs of intoxication.

Sembler and his wife, Betty, are cofounders of the Drug Free America Foundation, a group that supports drug - testing students, opposes taking a harm - reduction approach to drug addiction, and claims that «crude» marijuana is not medicDrug Free America Foundation, a group that supports drug - testing students, opposes taking a harm - reduction approach to drug addiction, and claims that «crude» marijuana is not medicdrug - testing students, opposes taking a harm - reduction approach to drug addiction, and claims that «crude» marijuana is not medicdrug addiction, and claims that «crude» marijuana is not medicine.

In 1961, the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, a treaty that aligned 154 countries with the same impossible mission — to rid the world of drugs and drug addicDrugs, a treaty that aligned 154 countries with the same impossible mission — to rid the world of drugs and drug addicdrugs and drug addiction.

Last year, he and his wife, Miriam, a physician and expert in drug addiction, provided the vast majority of funding for the campaign to defeat a ballot question that would have legalized medical marijuana in Florida.

Patients are prescribed controlled doses of the drug to help them recover from heroin or painkiller addiction.

The system checks for felony convictions, instances of domestic violence, addiction to illegal drugs and involuntary commitments due to mental illness.

The drug counters opioid addiction by suppressing cravings of patients that have been through detoxification, helping them overcome the urge to relapse.

Sales of the drug were slow to take off until Alkermes realized it needed to build a unique sales force to work with the criminal justice system and addiction recovery programs.

During the 1970s, DuPont worked to expand Endo's line of analgesics and to develop treatments for drug addiction, but Endo proved unable to accommodate the expansion and squabbling among research groups slowed development of new drugs.

When addiction decided to creep into my family, it came in the form of drugs.

Couldn't Republicans cite drug trafficking over that border and the addiction of our increasing numbers of our children as more cause to do our best to seal that border?

Today, with much of the discourse on drug addiction controlled by medical bureaucrats, it is common to speak of addiction as an «equal - opportunity disease» that can «strike anyone.»

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

To that end, the author of this piece is not denying her addiction to the God drug, just the method of deliverTo that end, the author of this piece is not denying her addiction to the God drug, just the method of deliverto the God drug, just the method of delivery.

The answer to that is the same answer for any sort of addiction, whether it is overeating, drugs, alcohol, gaming, or gambling: Addictions are overcome only by the supernatural power of God.

This is particularly frightening to parents for whom it conjures up visions of drug addiction, delinquency, and sexual problems.

The point of this article is the fact that anyone can escape the chains of drug addiction — providing there is a desire to stop.

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).

HOOKED BY FEAR AND ADDICTION What keeps most girls on the streets is the fear of being abused or killed by their pimp, and / or their need to keep an expensive drug habit going.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

Tammy L. Anderson of the University of Illinois explained in «Drug Use and Gender» that drug abuse and addiction manifest «differently in the lives of males and females» due to «gender - based social organization of societies and cultures.&raDrug Use and Gender» that drug abuse and addiction manifest «differently in the lives of males and females» due to «gender - based social organization of societies and cultures.&radrug abuse and addiction manifest «differently in the lives of males and females» due to «gender - based social organization of societies and cultures.»

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.

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

Please rescue me and my children we want a better life full of drug addiction, selfishness, alcoholic fathers, crime, and to learn the true art of religious bigotry.

The program caused him to think about the powerlessness people have over their addictions if they refuse to recognize the depths of their own brokenness — even if the addictions aren't drugs or substances.

Still less do they mean that men could be «cured» of their religious beliefs by proving them false, as men might possibly be cured of drug addiction by lectures about the injury it does to them.

But as his high school experience slammed to a close in a series of disrupted celebrations, we began to face the inevitable: drug addiction.

«They give a few dollars to some group that claims they're fighting the evils of (fill in the blank with words like homelessness, drinking, drug addiction, prostitution, homosexuality) because they feel guilty, but they're afraid to come near us.

Then, in an extremely useful review of «sin, sickness, alcoholism, and drug addictions,» Clinebell mentions several of a «confusing variety of usages,» applied, as he says, now and again to alcoholism and other substance addictions — several of which are not mutually exclusive: 1.

Clinebell begins this particular work with definitions of addiction and alcoholism: «In traditional psychiatric usage, the term addiction is limited to obsessive - compulsive abuse of substances like alcohol and drugs....

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

Did you take in to account that Satan is the roler of this world behind, every war, drug addiction, lies, robberies, murders, and so on....

And they even predict that decriminalization will take the stigma out of drug use, which will help people get help to beat addiction to drugs.

Whether it is me trying to impress my mates, or guys looking for one night stands, or addictions to alcohol or drugs, these actions — in fact most actions — are ways in which we attempt to fulfill ourselves in the absence of or in the looking for a deep and satisfying love.

Hundreds of Christian leaders signed a letter sent Wednesday to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders voicing support for a bill that would expand rehabilitation programs for prisoners suffering from drug or sexual addiction, grant job training and anger management classes to inmates, and expand risk assessment programs to match prisoners with programs that could help them.

Coming from a family of alcoholics of which I wasn't one, I find any kind of drug addiction a horrible obstruction to a «normal» life.

It is also necessary to raise the spiritual content of well - being and reduce all the symptoms of anomie, like family disintegration, conflict and tensions, crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness, all indicating lack of inner happiness and contentment in the life of individuals.

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.

So with this character, you liken what had been his attachment to the pastor and his church as drug addiction and him moving on with fear of the unknown to withdrawal symptoms.

Violence, criminality and drug addiction will have to be discussed not simply as problems of «law and order,» though that is important, but in regard to their more basic causes.

Once in prison, he came to accept that he had loved drugs more than his own life, but how could he live with the knowledge that he was willing to sacrifice his son on the altar of his addiction?