Sentences with phrase «on alcohol or drugs»

Don't rely on alcohol or drugs When you're going through a tough time, it can be tempting to use alcohol or drugs to make things feel better.

Moreover, he asserted that the lower benefit payments offered through Ontario Works contribute to the recovery process by limiting the funds available to spend on alcohol or drugs.

On the social care side, any activity that involves the provision of personal care or «other practical assistance» provided by virtue of certain characteristics of an individual, such as disability or dependency on alcohol or drugs, is potentially registrable.

adults also becoming intoxicated on alcohol or drugs, and driving their motor vehicle on streets packed with young Halloweeners; and

Alcohol and drugs can be a kind of self - medication, and in such instances, individuals who have mental illness could have conditions like depression or anxiety that might temporarily be eased when the individual is high on alcohol or drugs.

Walker said there are many reasons why someone would become dependent on alcohol or drugs, but soldiers face added stressors.

Iain Duncan Smith announced to the Conservative party conference this week that he'd be testing out pre-paid cards for people to receive their benefits, so they couldn't spend it on alcohol or drugs.

I suppose it is because people believe that the homeless man is more likely to spend the money on alcohol or drugs than the business man.

About 3 percent of students plan to use student loan money to fund vacations and another 3 percent will spend it on alcohol or drugs.

Results demonstrated significantly better outcomes than those who received treatment - as - usual on trauma related symptoms, although not on alcohol or drug use.

Not exact matches

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

A significant portion of them squander what money they have on cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, or cars they can't afford.

Because you play on stage, you have a thousand or 10 thousand people giving all this love, then you're in a hotel by yourself; then you're on a bus and then you're using alcohol or drugs or sex, these things that are very temporary mood enhancers and then they go away.

Our email is [email protected] our office phone number is 310 Hyped U1 [497 3381] it's about being high on life and not drugs or alcohol.]

How many times have we read of somebody being down and out on drugs or alcohol and suddenly «finding Jesus».

Yet if your teen is one of the 20 to 40 percent of religiously active teens who experiment with alcohol and drugs, it means he or she may be on the road out of youth group, joining Tracy and others in an increasingly self - destructive and isolating journey.

«Let's say your family member is on drugs or alcohol — it's a constant work.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

On page 29 and 30, Dr. Playfair musters compelling Scripture to establish that those addicted to alcohol are called drunkards; that the alcoholic or drug addict is a person controlled by his or her habit; that the Christian is to be «controlled» by the Holy Spirit; that we have a choice in such matters; that substance abuse or misabuse has brought these people «under the power,» and that such «uncontrolled lifestyle» is called unrighteousness (sin).

Why else are there so many «successful» people with broken marriages and alienated children, who depend on drugs or alcohol or workahol because they can't face their empty inner selves?

If that pattern continues, you will eventually find that you no longer control the alcohol or the drugs, or the pornography, or the eating, or they lying, or the stealing, or the gambling... no, you have let it go on so long, that now it controls you.

A painful life dependant on drugs or alcohol is a cop out and a means to a painful death an losing everything you care about on the way to that death.

And the range of caves runs from the old standbys of sex and alcohol and other drugs to TA (Transactional Analysis), TM (Transcendental Meditation), TV (before whom, on an average, we stand, sit, lie, eat, and drink an unconscionable and unbelievable number of adult hours per week), TF (touchy - feely in dual or group encounters), TZ (try Zen), TS (take Sominex), or even, in some circles, TJ (take Jesus - in this sense an icon distantly derived from Jesus Christ), and literally scores of others.

The San Francisco study actually found that 94 percent of panhandlers spend whatever money they get on food, compared to just 44 percent who spend it on drugs or alcohol.

or the «I believe in illegals but I hate my fellow Americans who are REpublicnas...» I think God will be very unhappy when he learns how we treat his anim als and his garden of eden... if its a matter of choosing who to exist past a certain trial I would suggest most of you could not possible make it, and nor I for my petiness... but at least I am not gay, a killer, a democrat, nor muslim, not even mormom or baptist, thief or self bent on personal damnation thru drugs, alcohol or the like... unfortunately the shooter appears to be none of that... he is mentally ill from all obvious signs...

«Put simply, the influence of alcohol and other drugs on road transport drivers whilst performing work is totally unacceptable whether it arises from «professional» or «recreational» uses.

I don't think it's drugs or alcohol but there's def something else going on.

You won't find any posts with profanity, drugs or alcohol on his social media accounts, and his interactions off the field are polite and professional.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

What are the chances for a «last resort» co-sleep on a baby that has undiagnosed fetal alcohol syndrome and a drunk or drugged mom and or dad?

Here are the issues parents need to take into consideration when figuring out if their teen is getting high on drugs or drinking alcohol.

Teen Drug Use and Abuse All teens see some type of drug use or abuse in school or in the media, find resources here including statistics, articles on marijuana, heroin, alcohol and more to help you talk with your teenager and parent them on the topic of teen drug Drug Use and Abuse All teens see some type of drug use or abuse in school or in the media, find resources here including statistics, articles on marijuana, heroin, alcohol and more to help you talk with your teenager and parent them on the topic of teen drug drug use or abuse in school or in the media, find resources here including statistics, articles on marijuana, heroin, alcohol and more to help you talk with your teenager and parent them on the topic of teen drug drug use.

That is one way to do it, the other way is to just have a little bit of history on them, whether or not they are consuming alcohol or drugs, or if they have a history of herpes.

Your pediatrician will also likely discuss other important topics, such as how your child is doing in school and he or she will do counseling about nutrition, safety, injury prevention, avoiding using drugs, depression, alcohol and cigarettes, puberty and sex education, and being safe on the Internet.

We imagine our children giving in to friends who tempt them with alcohol or drugs, or even encouraging them to join in on bullying.

Our specialist guides offer useful advice for particular kinds of workers (for example midwives) or focus on how to engage with specific groups of dads, for example those from African Caribbean backgrounds or those who misuse drugs or alcohol.

The fact that my husband never cheated on me or that he was a good provider or that he didn't abuse drugs or alcohol or didn't beat me has nothing to do with whether or not I was obligated to stay.

Here are some of the excluding criteria most experts agree on: «Obese parents; parents who smoke (either during pregnancy or at present); parents sleeping on a waterbed, recliner, sofa, armchair, couch or bean bag; parents who sleep on multiple pillows, a sagging mattress or a sheepskin or use heavy bedding, such as comforters or duvets; sleeping in overheated rooms; parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol; other children or pets who can or are likely to climb into the bed; and stuffed animals on the bed that could cover the baby's face.»

Persons taking sedatives, medications or drugs, or intoxicated from alcohol or other substances, or otherwise excessively unable to arouse easily from sleep should not cosleep on the same surface with the infant.

The authors argue that public health strategy should therefore focus on making parents aware of specific hazardous co-sleeping environments to avoid: sofa - sharing, alcohol, drugs, smoking, or co-sleeping if the infant is pre-term.

They conclude that risk reduction messages to prevent sudden infant deaths should be targeted more appropriately to unsafe infant care practices such as sleeping on sofas, bed - sharing after the use of alcohol or drugs, or bed - sharing by parents who smoke, and that advice on whether bed - sharing should be discouraged needs to take into account the important relationship with breastfeeding.

Parents need to be advised never to put themselves in a situation where they might fall asleep with a young infant on a sofa and that they should never co-sleep with an infant in any environment if they have consumed alcohol or taken drugs.

(2) The most recent study on bedsharing and SIDS in the UK found that babies who died while sleeping with a parent were doing so in a hazardous environment, particularly on a sofa, or with a parent who had consumed alcohol or drugs.

Excessive alcohol or any kind of recreational drug or medication that has not been approved by your pediatrician should not be indulged in, since enough of it could be passed on to your baby and cause serious harm.

Speaking of which, a home birth disaster in my state was based on the fact that the midwife didn't ask about PRIOR drug abuse, just of the mother was currently using drugs or alcohol.

So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?

Do not cosleep is you are under the influence of drugs and alcohol, if you are obese because you have a greater chance of having sleep apnea, if you are suffering from sleep deprivation, if you have a water bed or other cushiony surface where it's easier for your baby to fall towards the middle of the bed, if you bed isn't big enough, if your other children are sleeping in the bed with you and there isn't enough room, or cosleeping on a coach or sofa.

Something to Sleep On Research on infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feedinOn Research on infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feedinon infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feedinon his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feedinon an adult's chest), and formula - feeding.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome researcher Doctor James McKenna said that as long as co-sleeping is carried out in a responsible manner — not on a waterbed or couch and not by parents affected by drugs or alcohol — then babies up to 12 months old will reap the long - term benefits.