Sentences with phrase «of cocaine addicts»

Imaging studies by Nora Volkow, head of the medical department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, revealed that the brains of cocaine addicts release half as much dopamine as substance - free subjects.

But I observed in those first images of cocaine addicts that blood flow in their brains was very decreased.

Finally, convalescing in Paris in 2001 (where he went to be close to his parents and relatives), he read about a study of a muscle relaxant that had stifled the cravings of a cocaine addict.

This suggests that prolonged periods of economic growth and prosperity can induce a collective sense of euphoria and complacency among investors that is not unlike the drug induced stupor of a cocaine addict...»

Not exact matches

The treaty, which is still in effect, requires all countries part of the treaty to «prevent and combat» drugs and drug addicts and to enforce punishment against the unauthorized cultivation, production or possession of opium, coca (and its derivative cocaine), marijuana and other illegal substances.

(But the government's own statistics indicate that for every 104 people who have used marijuana, only one becomes a regular user of cocaine, and less than one becomes a heroin addict.)

Severely addicted humans may in some ways resemble those experimental monkeys who will starve themselves to death if supplied with, unlimited cocaine, but the vast majority of users are not in such danger (and alcoholic humans also will drink themselves to death)

«Over time, the effect on the reward centre in the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts go back for another line of cocaine.»

By the age of 15 I was addicted to crack cocaine, running the streets of New York doing everything and anything for another hit!

Of course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addicOf course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addicof an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addict.

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.

My then husband made lots of money and became an abusive cocaine addict.

The Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed — leading the Journal of American Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»

It turns out that if someone is actively craving cocaine, or if you expose an addict to stimuli that remind the addict of cocaine and activate the craving, what you are doing is increasing activity in an area of the prefrontal cortex called the orbitofrontal cortex.

Their team blocked neurogenesis in the hippocampus — a seat of memory — with targeted irradiation, and then tested the rats for their ability to become addicted to cocaine.

Researchers have found that in the brains of cocaine - addicted rats, their craving actually increased over time.

Indeed, by examining brain tissue and slices from the cocaine - addicted rats at various stages of withdrawal and craving, Wolf and her colleagues discovered that the incubation period and the subsequent spike in craving appeared to correlate with the appearance of atypical AMPA receptors on the surface of neurons in the NAc, which could help explain cocaine craving.

«It's not something that will be a panacea for all [cocaine] addicts,» says John Shields, senior vice president of research at Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a British company that recently bought ImmuLogic's vaccine program.

Several dozen addicts housed in Daytop's gloomy brick barracks on the abandoned grounds of a state mental hospital have pledged to forgo their cocaine habit and shoot up an experimental vaccine instead.

This «priming effect,» which may be permanent, may contribute to the severity of relapse episodes in cocaine addicts.

Animals typically formed a positive association between the effects of the cocaine and the room, just as a person addicted to alcohol might form an association between feeling good and the pop of a cork.

Schrock: Some of the rats were making a choice for the first time, but they also used rats that were already addicted to cocaine and they actually weaned themselves from the cocaine because they preferred the saccharine.

In 2009 Kosten reported the results of a clinical trial with 115 cocaine addicts, half of whom received the vaccine.

When the researchers gave OV329 to cocaine - or nicotine - addicted rats, dopamine spikes were neutralized, blocking the addictive reward response and halting the animals» self - administration of the drugs.

Lead researcher Dr Peter McCormick, from UEA's School of Pharmacy, said: «Relapse among cocaine addicts is a major problem.

(Previous studies have shown a dip in the number of the D2 family of dopamine receptors in cocaine - addicted monkeys.)

People addicted to cocaine also perform poorly on tasks that involve an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, such as memory, attention, and reaction time.

Beynon would like to see future research examine the effects of more casual use of cocaine and other drugs, since not everyone who uses drugs becomes addicted.

It's the same advice given to most addicts of other substances such as alcohol and cocaine.

Node Smith, ND A very interesting study on an off - label use of a common diabetes medication for the treatment of cocaine addiction was recently published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.1 The research is specifically addressing the tendency for cocaine addicts to relapse on the drug.

As a whole, these findings extend previous research [31], [32] by showing that an intense sensation of sweetness surpasses maximal cocaine stimulation, even in drug - sensitized and - addicted users.

Another study proved that mice became more addicted to sugar than cocaine, and chose it over cocaine as their drug of choice — a very interesting outcome!

For individuals with a high level of dopamine receptors, they can become addicted to food just as they would get addicted to a drug (7), as modern - day junk foods create a surge of dopamine to be released in the brain (similarly to cocaine, for example).

In another study performed at the University of Biological Medicine, Dr. Malcolm Freehand and his team fed mice a strict diet of cocaine making sure they got thoroughly addicted.

Ex cocaine addict Jeremy McConnell has been partying with wild pals who «rack up lines of suspicious white powder» and mock his dead mother, grim footage A Los Angeles court room is to hear a bitter legal dispute between Liz Crokin, 37, an author, and Mallory Hill, 59, her older ex-lover, over claims he gave

At the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, ambulance drivers get kickbacks for delivering patients, women regularly die from routine pregnancy complications and the chief of surgery's a strung - out cocaine addict who refuses to allow his black deputy to...

It is hard not to notice that specific scenes in Whiplash could be pulled straight out of a «recovering alcoholic or cocaine addict» movie.

«Implying that Alex Trebek is a cocaine addict and he's likely to die of an overdose,» explained Wernick.

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex - obsessed, cocaine - addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests.

Meanwhile, the main spokesperson for the Medellin cocaine cartel (Benjamin Bratt) has monologues about the law of supply and demand — it's the addicts» fault laws get broken — and insists our economy would collapse if the Federal Reserve Bank turned away illegally obtained Colombian money.

The moment the wedding's done, Eddie discovers a variety of turn - offs regarding his new bride: she has bad musical tastes, has no income at all, is very strange in bed, and was recently a cocaine addict.

I was shocked and dismayed to find that so many of the young men I grew up with had succumbed to the crack cocaine trade and were either addicted to it or selling it, died or were killed for it, or were in jail because of it.

For example, The A1 allele of the dopamine receptor gene DRD2 is more common in people addicted to alcohol or cocaine.

But he's also a pretty decent guy deep down who works the streets with expertise, and readers will be fascinated by the day - in - the - life perspective of an unrepentant cocaine addict.

My addicted friend comes to me asking for me to up his limit on the amount of cocaine he can have, so he can continue to live his lifestyle.

Following an investigation during which Stewart stated he believed he might be addicted to cocaine, the employer terminated his employment for breaching the Policy and for compromising the safety of the workplace.

It was later revealed that Stewart was addicted to cocaine at the time of the incident.

This 8:1 decision the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a Human Rights Tribunal decision that a cocaine addict in a safety - sensitive job, who was fired for violating the employer's policy by failing to report his addiction and then being involved in an accident, was not fired (on the facts of the particular case) because of his disability but rather because he violated the policy under circumstances where it was entirely within his capacity to comply with it.

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer In a story that shows the importance of using overlapping tools to do criminal background checks, a jury recently ruled that negligence by the Housing Authority in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman's death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 2007.

In the prime of my career, as a 747 pilot, I became addicted to alcohol and cocaine.