Sentences with phrase «of cocaine users»

«First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing.»

In his trial, Kosten found that 50 percent of cocaine users had cocaine - free urine when tested 8 to 16 weeks after vaccination, compared with 35 percent of those who received a placebo shot.

Not exact matches

That led us to go deeper into the report — by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services — to see what other states are near the top of the list for marijuana users, who leads in cocaine abuse, and which states» residents most abuse alcohol and other drugs.

(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)

On Tuesday, Liverpool Crown Court heard Stapleton was a habitual user of cocaine, heroin, crack cocaine, cannabis and Spice, who had 108 previous convictions including numerous burglaries, dishonesty offences and drug possession.

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

Studies showed a huge percentage of users of hard drugs (like cocaine) had smoked marijuana earlier in their life.

The Solution to the Economic Crisis is NOT to place a former cocaine user like Obama in charge of the World's Largest Economy.

Three days later, The Sun carried a story claiming that Mr Baldwin had been a heavy user of cocaine.

They also found that among early - onset users, the concurrent consumption of cannabis and alcohol was 50 % and 30 % more frequent, respectively, compared with late - onset users, defined as those who began using cocaine at or over the age of 18.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / fotokon Although cocaine makes people feel more alert and on top of things in the moment, it can leave users vulnerable to a much slower brain in the long run.

Then it will have to win the approval of another group of skeptics: heavy cocaine users who are trying to quit.

If cocaine subsequently enters the bloodstream, the antibodies bind to it and neutralize it before it can reach the brain to cause the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, the process that makes users feel high.

The vast majority of women targeted under this policy are crack cocaine users.

In a bid to see if cocaine users» «impatience» extended to nonsexual situations, the researchers offered the participants a hypothetical choice between receiving a small amount of money that day or waiting — either a day, a week, a month, six months, a year, five years or 25 years — before receiving $ 100.

Now, in a government - funded study for which Johns Hopkins investigators recruited a small number of otherwise healthy regular cocaine users through advertisements and word of mouth, results point to «impatience» as a clear barrier to condom use in those who are sexually aroused because of the drug.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

This might hinder the ability to interact in social situations, but it may also help explain why cocaine - users report higher levels of sociability when intoxicated — simply because they can't recognise the negative emotions».

Compared with drug - free people of the same age, the cocaine users also showed proportionally greater volume loss in prefrontal and temporal areas — the very areas that control the functions impaired in drug abusers.

However, he emphasises that even this type of local anaesthetic, during which the woman remains conscious during the operation, is not free of risk, but can lead to very low blood pressure in cocaine users.

But among cocaine users, the rate of shrinkage was almost twice that of the non-drug-using group (about 3 milliliters per year versus 1.7 milliliters for the non-drug-users), the team reports today in Molecular Psychiatry.

For cocaine users, a rolled up $ 20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug.

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with development of subclinical coronary artery disease in HIV - infected African American cocaine users with low Framingham - defined cardiovascular risk.

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.

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.

Both girls had fled their homes, lived on the streets, and were regular users of crack cocaine and marijuana.

«Accepting, as I do, that crack cocaine and methamphetamine are as harmful as heroin to the individual user, I still find no basis on the evidence before me to conclude that the disparity in sentence is a result of heroin being over-punished, rather than crack cocaine and methamphetamine being under - punished,» wrote Justice Nancy Spies in a new ruling from the Superior Court.

As for claims by former employees Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo — who are standing trial accused of using misusing the former couple's credit cards — that Nigella was a habitual cocaine user while married to him, Saatchi said: «Like you, I like proof.