Sentences with phrase «of addictive drug»

Substance abuse is categorized as the change that take effect to one's brain while under the influence of an addictive drug substance.

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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.

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.

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.»

Neurons that originate in the VTA release the neurotransmitter dopamine, known to play a central role in the effects of addictive drugs and natural rewards such as food and sex.

The Oasis virtual reality functions similar to the effect of addictive drugs, a «high» players crave to escape the ugliness of their reality.

Not exact matches

The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

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.

A new government - funded study suggests that addictive opioid painkillers may not be better than other, non-opioid kinds of drugs for treating chronic back pain and arthritis.

Those provisions, she said, outweighed the «tiny fig leaf» of additional money the bill provides for biomedical research and combating abuse of addictive opioid drugs.

He argued the drug companies spent millions of dollars to promote the drugs for profit while denying or trivializing their potential addictive qualities.

Each is helpful in explaining the addictive nature of easy money (or alcohol or drugs) and the inevitable withdrawal that takes place when the stimulus is removed.

The best way for a society to avoid the dangers of addictive and dangerous drugs is to severely restrict access to them.

Men destroy themselves by addictions of their own making — alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and the various addictive, «kick» drugs.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

To tolerate the pain would have required the addictive use of mind - altering drugs.

Drug addiction is singled out as evil, yet we are a society of addicts living in an addictive society.

Because of its spikes, valleys and addictive quality, one actually underperforms when relying on America's drug of choice.

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.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

Opiates are drugs that are derived from the opium poppy, and range from some of the most addictive painkillers such as codeine, oxycodone, and fentanyl to illicit drugs, such as heroin.

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.

«Abuse of addictive painkillers has increased drastically in the last decade, but our state's regulation and monitoring of these powerful drugs has not kept up,» said U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

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

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.

«We believe the manufacturers, marketers and promoters of these drugs have misled us as to the addictive power of these drugs in their negligent marketing and misleading promotion of them.

The Rockland County DA's Office continues its crackdown on drug dealers, announcing this week the filing of charges against 37 individuals for allegedly selling oxycodone, ecstasy, percocet and other highly - addictive pharmaceuticals, as well as heroin and cocaine, throughout Rockland County.

The executive director of a leading government reform group has been replaced, after he turned himself in for possession of addictive illegal drugs.

The suit, filed on Wednesday, also accuses four physicians of being paid by drug makers to promote their prescription painkillers and mislead other physicians regarding the drugs» addictive properties.

«They have created a whole nation of addicts by stating publicly that these drugs were not addictive and were quite safe, when we knew they were very addictive and dangerous.»

In the midst of the worst drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed, according to a whistleblower and former DEA official, Joe Rannazzdrug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed, according to a whistleblower and former DEA official, Joe RannazzDrug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed, according to a whistleblower and former DEA official, Joe Rannazzisi.

«Our subpoenas and letters seek to uncover whether or not there was deception involved, if manufacturers misled doctors and patients about the efficacy and addictive power of these drugs.»

Schneiderman says the investigation will examine whether manufacturers misled doctors and patients about the addictive power of the drugs.

«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.»

At a Senate press briefing Tuesday morning, heads of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction said that it was time to bolster law enforcement officials» ability to arrest and prosecute drug dealers that put highly addictive heroin and even more dangerous opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl on the street, after years of legislation aimed at prevention, treatment and insurance coverage.

Schumer asked SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Committee on Independent Colleges and University President Laura Anglin to take steps to stop abuse of drugs he calls addictive and dangerous.

One of them said that there is a reason that drinking alcohol, doing drugs and going into debt are all addictive.

Washington County District Attorney Tony Jordan says there are a lot of misconceptions about drug abuse and the reality of highly - addictive methamphetamines.

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.

That's why crack cocaine is more addictive than snorted cocaine: inhaling into the lungs» large surface area rather than the mucous membranes of the nose gets the drug into the bloodstream much faster.

The health threat was potentially serious: About 100 drugs, including sophisticated chemotherapy compounds and addictive prescription painkillers, had been approved for sale in the United States at least in part on the strength of Cetero Houston's tainted tests.

It is exactly during puberty that substances like drugs of abuse — alcohol, cannabis, etc. — may induce the most destructive and also persistent effects on the still developing brain, which may in some cases even result in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia or addictive disorders.

Problematic video game use isn't all that different from other types of addictive behavior, such as alcohol or drug abuse, which can be spurred by poor coping strategies.

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.

Problematic video game use isn't all that different from other types of addictive behavior, such as alcohol or drug abuse, which can be spurred by poor coping strategies, Hilgard said.