Sentences with phrase «of small amounts of drugs»

That is to end the nonsense of sending people to prison where the offence on the charge sheet is possession of small amounts of drugs for their personal use.

«But, in this country, if you're a young person — say out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

In this country, if you're a young person — say, out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

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But rather than have patients take buprenorphine manually, Probuphine dispenses small amounts of the drug continually into the bloodstream, ensuring that people actually stick to their prescribed regimen.

Since fentanyl is so much more potent than other opioid painkillers, drug traffickers only need to pack their drugs with small amounts of it to provide users a powerful punch.

More theists use drugs than atheists, and prisons are packed full of theists with only a very small amount of atheists

i'm: «More theists use drugs than atheists, and prisons are packed full of theists with only a very small amount of atheists»

He'd explained how only small amounts of a drug pass into your breast milk, and how it's cheaper for drug companies to say, «Don't take while breastfeeding» rather than do trials to prove the drugs are compatible with breastfeeding.

Once the baby is born, he will be free of drug and the small amounts in the milk will not usually cause problems and you can restart the fluoxetine (Prozac).

Small amounts of the drug may have stronger and longer lasting effects on infants than on adults.

Chicago's action puts it at odds with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which insists that the small amount of BPA in containers isn't dangerous.

Two case reports and two small case series subsequently have provided reassuring evidence regarding the limited amount of drug transferred to the infant through breast milk and the lack of adverse side effects noted in infants by nursing mothers.5 — 8

• A 19 - year - old Homer Glen man was charged with violating Orland Park ordinances against possessing cannabis and drug paraphernalia after a small amount of marijuana and a marijuana pipe were discovered in the vehicle he was in in an Orland Square Mall parking lot on March 13.

The Legal Aid Society is seeking an injunction compelling the NYPD to enforce a directive reminding officers that they may not arrest someone on a misdemeanor marijuana charge if they find small amounts of the drug in their clothing.

The sponsors want to reduce the number of people who face criminal prosecution over small amounts of the drug.

Thousands of young black and Hispanic men stopped and searched by police have been arrested and received permanent records for possessing small amounts of the drug.

Private possession of small amounts of marijuana is considered just a violation, but when the drug becomes public during a police search, the person is subject to a misdemeanor charge.

In July, Durham's police and crime commissioner said he would effectively decriminalise people who grew small amounts of cannabis, a move welcomed by those who argue that Britain's current drug laws are failing.

But he supports decriminalizing marijuana — ending criminal penalties for possessing and using small amounts of the drug.

In November, the commissioner and de Blasio announced NYPD officers would issue a ticket instead of arresting individuals caught with small amounts of the drug.

New York has a medical marijuana program and has decriminalized small amounts of pot, but racial disparities in punishment remain even though white people and people of color use the drug at similar rates.

It would address problems with New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which has led to misdemeanor convictions for people carrying small amounts of the drug for private use.

Still other topics under discussion also seem totally unrelated to a budget plan, including easing of the state's drug laws to lessen penalties for public possession of small amounts of marijuana.

For instance, a slow - release version of the drug appears to be just as effective, even though only small amounts of it ever reach the liver.

In August, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico approved a law decriminalising possession of small amounts of marijuana and other drugs.

Ultimately, the team hopes to inject BMP - 7 directly into the pancreas to stimulate the creation of new beta cells, allied with a small amount of immunosuppressive drugs to stop the new insulin factories being destroyed by the immune system.

With the initial contract of $ 24.9 million over the next 18 months, Mapp Pharmaceutical will manufacture a small amount of the drug for early - stage clinical studies to demonstrate its safety and efficacy in people.

«Many chemotherapy drugs leave a small amount of cancer stem cells that cause a renewed outbreak of the disease after a few years.

Small amounts of the silvery grey metal are used to speed up or «catalyze» a number of key industrial processes, including those that make drugs, detergents and nitrogen fertilizer, and they even play a major role breaking down toxic pollutants in the catalytic converters of our cars.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

Next, Grima looked at cell death in cultured neurons with a healthy or a mutant form of Huntingtin, or with a mutant form of Huntingtin that was treated with small amounts of an experimental drug called KPT - 350, one that prevents a nuclear export protein, Exportin - 1, from shuttling proteins and RNA out of the nucleus.

In other words, if an effect is obtained with a small amount of a drug, the treatment efficiency is high.)

The amount of DNA needed to tag drugs is so small, Hayward says, that it would have no effect on a person when ingested.

They used very small amounts of serotonin and other drugs that interact with serotonin receptors and injected them into a part of the brainstem involved in the control apnea and regular breathing.

Adding the monoclonal antibody drug trastuzumab — already used to treat certain breast cancers — to the chemotherapy regimen of women with a rare form of uterine cancer lengthens the amount of time their tumors are kept from growing, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conducting a small phase II trial of the regimen, testing its safety and value.

Even small quantities of aflatoxin can ruin a large harvest, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strict guidelines in place that limit the amount allowed in food to a mere 20 micrograms per kilogram, or 20 parts per billion (ppb).

«We can infuse very small amounts of multiple drugs compared to what we can do intravenously or orally, and also manipulate behavioral changes through drug infusion,» says Canan Dagdeviren, the LG Electronics Career Development Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and the lead author of the paper, which appears in the Jan. 24 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Smaller, cheaper and easier to breed than mice, zebrafish in their juvenile phase can actually live in the tiny amount of liquid — ranging from tens of nanoliters to several milliliters — that fits in the wells of a standard 96 - well plate used to screen drug compounds.

This means physicians can prescribe smaller amounts of drugs.»

But if you want to build a lean an powerful body this diet will be a perfect fit.When you think about it — only certain people have the genetics to build an elite level physique (not to mention that only a small number of people will decide to take the amounts of drugs the pros are using).

A drug in development would allow celiac patients to tolerate small amounts of gluten (though certainly not enough to eat a loaf of bread).

What they remove: lead, PCBs, pesticides and herbicides, chlorine, gasoline and dry - cleaning by - products, radon, small amount of pharmaceutical drugs, and some bacteria and parasites.

But it is also possible that the years of stress on her pancreas not to mention the drug you said caused some damage might have done sufficient damage that it can't produce enough insulin on its own to overcome even small amounts of insulin resistance caused by small amounts of meat, eggs or dairy and that for her only a 100 % WFPB diet will allow her to control her blood sugar without medication.

His plan was to put a group of patients on a diet of low - fat, plant - based foods along with small quantities of low - fat dairy products and minimal amounts of cholesterol - reducing drugs.

Edward Krenzelok, PharmD, director of the Pittsburgh Poison Control Center and Drug Information Center at the University of Pittsburgh (and lead author of the 1996 study), says that it is possible to become ill by consuming a large amount of the plant — but it's also rare, even in small children and pets.

Because inhalers often contain concentrated doses (often 200 doses in one small vial) of beta - agonist drugs (e.g., albuterol) or steroids (e.g., fluticasone), dogs that bite into them are exposed to massive amounts of the drugs all at once.

This drug is usually administered orally with a syringe, but it can also be administered as a tablet or a powder mixed into a small amount of food.

So veterinarians have adapted the test to work with smaller amounts of the drug.

A multi-modal approach refers to the layered administration of small amounts of different drugs to minimize any pain that your pet might feel during or after the procedure.

Worse yet, alerting to small amounts of marijuana could mess up prosecutions in cases involving other, still illegal, drugs.