Sentences with phrase «of cocaine abuse»

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The study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAM HSA) also looked at use of marijuana and cocaine around the country.

In consuming this highly - processed snack, individuals seek a sensation of pleasure or alleviation, similar to the relief experienced by humans who use and abuse alcohol, nicotine and cocaine.

Major League Baseball lists cannabis as a drug of abuse, alongside cocaine, opiates, MDMA, LSD, and a handful of other Schedule I and Schedule II drugs.

Drugs of Abuse: Some drugs, such as cocaine and PCP, can intoxicate the baby.

You might just be seeing more of Tia in the coming weeks, assuming that new - found blogger fame doesn't send her into an Anna Nicole - style spiral of excess and self - abuse (note: cocaine's a hell of a drug, or so I hear).

«Christopher Thomas abused cocaine, and then went to the home of his drug dealer.

All overstimulate the brain's so - called reward system, as do the major drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and heroin.

With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for cocaine addiction.

Drugs of abuse such as cocaine can regulate adult neurogenesis.

Despite various approaches and years of pre-clinical studies, effective, mechanism - based therapies to assist with cocaine abuse and dependence are still sorely lacking.

The study findings also associate several other factors with an increased risk of developing BD, including preterm birth, head injury, drug exposures (especially cocaine), physical or sexual abuse, and other forms of stress.

On the other side of the cocaine high is the cocaine crash, and understanding how one follows the other can provide insight into the physiological effects of drug abuse.

Inside his large, bustling laboratory in Berkeley's famous Stanley Hall, Duesberg plotted out graphs of the 1960s and»70s epidemic of drug abuse, including busts for heroin, cocaine, and other drugs.

Yavin Shaham, a neurobiologist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md., said in a press statement that the new work is an example of «basic research that can be readily translated to the treatment of cocaine addiction in humans.»

Abuse of cocaine, alcohol and pills was the patient's obvious problem, but at its root was undiagnosed ADHD

Researchers found that a pocket near the top of the brain stem may be key in determining whether someone is likely to engage in compulsive behavior or become hooked on drugs like cocaine, which is currently abused by an estimated two million Americans.

«Even as a smokeable drug of abuse, it's relatively safe... compared to cocaine or heroin.»

«Our results indicate that cocaine abuse increases a pregnant woman's likelihood of needing a Caesarean section,» says Birnbach.

«This is the first biological evidence I've seen that cocaine abuse may have an aging effect on the brain,» says social scientist Caryl Beynon of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom.

The researchers also detected increased levels of the protein ΔFosB, which is marker of long - term changes in neurochemistry, elevated in those abusing drugs such as cocaine or morphine.

In ways that drugs of abuse — such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin — hijack the brain's reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro - chemical and behavioural evidence suggests that sugar is addictive in the same way, too.

The absolute preference for taste sweetness may lead to a re-ordering in the hierarchy of potentially addictive stimuli, with sweetened diets (i.e., containing natural sugars or artificial sweeteners) taking precedence over cocaine and possibly other drugs of abuse.

Commonly known occurrences include use of statins, as well as use of illicit drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, 5 and abuse of prescription opiates.

There was his untimely death at 37 (from a cocktail of cocaine and sleeping pills), the way he was found (still clutching a cigarette), the number of filmed works (44), his lovers (countless men and women), his great loves (three men) his abuses (drugs, alcohol, food, people) and, stringing all together, a seer's ability to atone for his bleakest deeds by creating films shot through with emotional integrity.

And, according to Elsie, she saw Ryan «repeatedly abusing a panoply of legal and illegal drugs, including without limitation: cocaine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, and steroids... Phillippe increasingly combined these drugs with excessive alcohol consumption and often exhibited symptoms attendant of poly drug and alcohol abuse, including mood swings and bouts of anger.»

According to the recent statistics, 140 people die from cocaine abuse, 95 from marijuana, and almost 300 as a result of a sever cigarette addiction.

The account is filled with stories of Pryor's professional and personal life, including his well - publicized drug and alcohol abuse and the infamous incident when he doused himself with high - octane rum while freebasing cocaine, resulting in third - degree burns.

Not only did the driver have cocaine in his system but a review of his personal and criminal history revealed that the man had about 20 traffic violations over the prior 23 years and that he was a wanted man in two child sexual abuse cases.

United States First Circuit, 10/11/2010 US v. Brown Defendant's conviction for possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute is affirmed where: 1) although the district court's factual findings and the inferences made from those findings, which formed the basis of its conclusion that reasonable suspicion existed to stop a car, are not compelled by the record or by the facts, both are nonetheless reasonable and therefore pass constitutional muster; 2) the affirmance of the district court's finding that the officers had reasonable suspicion to stop the car forecloses the need to address defendant's challenge to the district court's alternate conclusion that the car was not seized when the officers first approached; and 3) there was no abuse of discretion in the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence without an evidentiary hearing.

In terms of the generalisability of these findings, the majority of participants were Caucasian couples; and in the drug group the primary substances of abuse were cocaine or opioids.

How effective are psychosocial treatments for the management of cannabis, cocaine, opiate and polysubstance abuse and dependence?

Neither should have any of the following histories: a. Domestic violence, sex abuse, abandonment or abuse of children (even if they are not consequently arrested or convicted); b. Use of narcotics, use of opium, morphine, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, etc., or any medication for mental illness; c.

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was recently developed for the WHO by an international group of substance abuse researchers to screen for problem or risky use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine - type stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, and «other drugs» that do not fall into the previous nine categories.40 The ASSIST was found to have high internal consistency (α > 0.80), correlated well against similarly worded items of other questionnaires, and good concurrent validity with a range of substance use and dependence measures.40

Objective: The purpose of this study was to provide nationally representative data on the prevalence, sociodemographic correlates, and comorbidity of antisocial syndromes across alcohol and 8 specific drug use disorders, including sedative, tranquilizer, opiate, stimulant, hallucinogen, cannabis, cocaine, and inhalant / solvent abuse and dependence.

Common examples of co-occurring disorders include the combinations of major depression with cocaine addiction, borderline personality disorder with episodic, poly - drug abuse, alcohol addiction with panic disorder and trauma or PTSD with a variety of substance abuse and process addictions.