Sentences with phrase «of illicit behavior»

Historically, there has been some stigma attached to cryptocurrencies that place an emphasis on anonymity, fueled by the assumption that anyone who uses them must be engaging in some sort of illicit behavior.

They had a fuller discussion in 2013 — 2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced.

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This is not to say that everyone in those groups is engaged in illicit behavior: many of them lead chaste lives.

Most of the answers from across the country leaned toward the assertion that one's illicit sexual behavior should have no bearing on our perception of capability.

Driving fast, trying illicit substances, and cutting class are just a few of the risky behaviors your teen may enjoy.

The Cutchogue vineyard's business practices have prompted investigations by both the town and the State Liquor Authority following a host of complaints, including reports of loud music and patrons allegedly wandering onto neighboring properties and engaging in illicit behavior.

Paladino believes that Reda's behavior is that of a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and declares that Reda is occupying his local position in Rockland County illegitimately by surviving a challenge to his leadership through the illicit procedure of being reelected by a «voice» vote.

More than a decade of data indicates teens have become far less likely to abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results of a national survey analyzed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

While previous studies have shown only very slight advantages to illicit matings, now «we have a situation where the advantages of this behavior can be huge.»

«These findings highlight the importance of implementing positive coping strategies for at - risk youth particularly for reducing illicit drug use and risky sexual behavior,» explains study author Jacinda Dariotis.

The only difference now is it seems our government currently doesn't care about throwing their illicit behavior in the faces of the American people and back in the days of Kennedy and Nixon, they at least tried to keep it hidden.

Best friends Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, but after a wild night of illicit substances and skinny - dipping, Gretchen's behavior takes a dark turn.

Crate training is used to illicit good behavior from your puppy and to aid your puppy in being successful instead of setting your puppy up to fail.

According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung piece, some diplomats — who currently enjoy using the villa as a summer residence — feared that the artists lodged there would engage in outrageous behavior, from illicit drug use to caricatures of Mohammed.

For the purpose of this section, illicit sexual behavior means acts of sexual or deviate sexual intercourse, deviate sexual acts, or sexual acts defined in G.S. 14 - 27.1 (4), voluntarily engaged in by a spouse with someone other than the other spouse;

You would not have expected that another person would be present at the time of your sexually - illicit behavior.

Decentralization is a threat to fiat currencies in some ways and the anonymity of traders concerns regulators due to possible illicit behavior and illegal funding.

Multiple factors reportedly increase the risk of suicide.44 - 49 Substance abuse has repeatedly been associated with suicidal behaviors, and depression has as well.1,50 - 62 Moreover, previous reports from the ACE Study have demonstrated strong, graded relationships between the number of adverse childhood experiences and the risk of alcohol or illicit substance abuse and depressive disorders.23, 24,28 Although a temporal relationship between the onset of substance abuse or depressive disorders and lifetime suicide attempts in the ACE Study cohort is uncertain, our analysis of the potential mediating effects of these known risk factors provides evidence that for some persons, adverse childhood experiences play a role in the development of substance abuse or depression.

Youth participating in programs implemented through the PROSPER Delivery System scored significantly lower on a number of negative behavioral outcomes, including drunkenness, cigarette use, marijuana use, use of other illicit substances, and conduct problem behaviors, up to 6 1/2 years past baseline; in many cases higher - risk youth benefited more.

Previous studies suggested that early childhood trauma can lead to an array of negative health outcomes and behaviors, including substance abuse, among both adolescents and adults.22 — 25 For example, childhood physical and sexual abuse has been shown to be associated with illegal drug use.26 — 28 Although these studies provide evidence that most substance abusers come from abusive homes, many of these studies have taken a «categorical» approach to examine the relationship between 1 or 2 forms of these childhood exposures and subsequent drug abuse; few studies have examined illicit drug use and abuse in relation to multiple disturbing or stressful childhood exposures.

Thus, illicit drug use may serve as an avenue to escape or dissociate from the immediate emotional pain, anxiety, and anger that likely accompany such experiences.46, 47 The current findings are supported by previous studies that have reported associations between forms of childhood abuse and substance abuse in adolescents.46, 48,49 The adverse developmental and emotional impact of these interrelated childhood experiences, combined with behaviors inherent among this age group, 19 — 21 all may contribute to the especially strong graded relationship that we found in this age group.

Early (i.e., at 10 to 13 years of age), repeated use of alcohol or illicit drugs is a red flag for the development of other behaviors associated with conduct disorder.

Although smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use might as behaviors have very different individual effects, they can be combined into a single category insofar as previous studies suggest that the use of these three substances is correlated or comorbid (e.g., Farrell et al. 1992; Lynskaey et al. 1998) and also, because they comprise a general type of deviant behavior often associated with externalizing behavior problems (e.g., Timmermans et al. 2008).

Thus, the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and smoking behaviors does not appear to be mediated primarily by genetic influences40 - 43 from, or modeling of smoking by, parents who were smokers, alcoholics, or illicit drug abusers.