Sentences with phrase «of illegal drug use»

Court - mandated testing usually involving random monitoring of someone who has been convicted of illegal drug use or to rule out drug use by parents involved in custody cases.

Though perjury sounds trivial, particularly in comparison to the more serious charge of illegal drug use, the Bonds indictment generated plenty of analysis in the blogosphere.

Alcohol / Drug Use: - Frequent references to and portrayals of illegal drug use, including marijuana and MDMA.

- Frequent portrayals of illegal drug use (marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy), for recreational purposes.

It went down for young people late in the 1990s and then went back up a little bit as a general population figure; so that you have a tremendously important contrast between steady rates of illegal drug use as measured by drug overdose death rates, as measured by urines of arrested people, emergency room mentions, all kinds of things.

Nick Clegg has accused the home secretary, Theresa May, of attempting to delete sentences from a Whitehall report after it concluded that there was no link between tough laws and the levels of illegal drug use.

Based on their performance, Muhammad Ali (blessed with preternatural speed and stamina) and Rocky Marciano (who absorbed incredible punishment and seemed to grow stronger as a fight wore on) might have been suspected of illegal drug use had PEDs been available to them.

Not exact matches

The 2010 University of Brasilia study found that a drug is used in at least half of illegal abortions in Brazil.

The federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug, even as a growing number of states are legalizing its use.

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence estimates that 70 percent of an estimated 14.8 million U.S. individuals who use illegal drugs are employed.

While the drug remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government, 29 states have passed legislation that allows for medical marijuana use and nine states have legalized recreational weed.

Rather than using the samples to screen for illegal drug use or preexisting medical conditions, TAT hopes to use its recently developed human - cloning technology to address a critical lack of available talent.

Friedman was of the opinion that all drugs should be legal, and he believed that the fact that they were illegal was the largest reason for the problems surrounding drug use.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner.»

The closure of Silk Road in October, the online marketplace that allegedly allowed more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency, is cited as another major driver.

Lots of things exist for a while unbothered by the law until someone cracks down, whether it's a certain drug, or, for example, people using bitcoin for illegal purposes.

«My words have been grossly mischaracterized and taken out of context... I was discussing the value of treating people for using dangerous and illegal drugs like marijuana, and the context in which treatment is successful.»

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but so far eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational use, while 28 states in total have legalized medical cannabis.

Because payments with it are essentially impossible to trace, a lot of its use case has been for buying and selling drugs and weapons and carrying out other illegal transactions.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, a couple of senators aren't happy with the way such a system can be used to buy and sell drugs and other illegal items over the Internet, something that has also torpedoed previous attempts to set up virtual currencies.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other suspects ran an encrypted telecommunications service used by more than 20,000 customers to facilitate illegal activities, including international shipments of cocaine and other drugs.

The problem is that many people are already using this type of currency for illegal transactions such as buying drugs, murder for hire and other criminal activities.

One of the reasons that smoking and drinking alcohol are so much more prevalent than drug use is precisely because drug use is illegal.

◾ LGBT youth who reported higher levels of family rejection during adolescence are three times more likely to use illegal drugs.

«About 4 million people above the age of 12 in the United States used an illegal drug in 1970, before we started the war,» says Jack Cole, a retired police officer and founder of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

According to the Human Rights Watch, people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites, but they have higher rate of arrests.

Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

Did you know you can get flagged to local law enforcement for buying too much Sudaffed decongestant for it can used to make illegal drugs but if I buy 100 guns online or buy a store out of ammunition no one knows.

As we've previously noted, Forbes reported that «Despite the fact that surveys show that whites are just as likely to use illegal drugs as blacks, one out of every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared to one in 106 white men.»

After the age of 35, the casual use of illegal drugs virtually ceases.

Only 13 percent of those using illegal drugs are African - American (exactly their proportion in the national population), but they constitute 35 percent of those arrested for simple possession and a staggering 74 percent of those sentenced for drug possession..

Party pills are the recreational drugs that are legal to use and specifically designed to mimic the effect of illegal drugs, methamphetamine, MDMA, and LSD.

On May 4, Dennis wrote to TAC Executive Director Ollan Cassell: «It seems to me that our concern with results... and our reluctance to carry out the testing because of what we may find is an open admission that this [illegal drug use] is occurring and indeed that we are condoning same.»

Anyway, my point is this: If we acknowledge that McGwire is a borderline Hall of Fame candidate, better than some Hall of Famers but worse than many others, should we simply ignore the fact that his illegal drug use, at a time when most of his peers were probably not using drugs, might well have given him a statistical boost, without which we wouldn't even be having this conversation?

Drinking, drug use, sexual activity, or even illegal activity are just a few of the risky behaviors that your teen may be tempted to engage in.

Another current article describes the illegal use of drugs such as hydrocodone, fentanyl, duragesic, and morphine (opiods); taken in combination by a breastfeeding mother, resulting in her infant's death.

Use of illegal drug during breastfeeding is contraindicated as they may transfer over to your baby through your milk.

Illegal drug use also has devastating effects on the development of the child and it makes it much more difficult for mom to survive childbirth herself.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

A California family court can order a parent or third party seeking custody or visitation of a child to undergo a drug test for illegal drug use, prior to making a custody determination.

goes over all of the common issues dealing with all types of drug use while in the tips below I am listing specifics to the problems of using anabolic steroids and signs a parent should look out for if they feel their teen may be exposed to this illegal drug.

The risk of SIDS while bed sharing went down as the infant grew older, but other factors including if the parents were smokers or if the mother drank two or more units of alcohol within 24 hours or used illegal drugs, increased the risk.

For adolescents and teenagers, such rules should include expectations about drinking, the use of illegal drugs, or safe defensive driving.

During pregnancy, the use of illegal drugs can harm your baby.

Given that some Chinese poultry farmers allegedly used large quantities of illegal drugs in raising chickens sold to KFC, and given the potential vulnerability of young school children eating such chicken, a lifting of the export ban on raw Chinese poultry is a cause for serious concern.

Today's Home Office report on international drug laws concludes that tough drug enforcement does not decrease use of illegal drugs.

The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up illegal black markets,» reduce the burden on law enforcement and use the cannabis tax to finance drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.