Sentences with phrase «on illicit drug use»

To put figures on illicit drug use, researchers routinely use surveys, supplemented by data from police and customs.

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• For white adolescent males in America, non-resident father involvement was found to buffer the negative effects of living in a lone - mother family on delinquency, heavy drinking and illicit drug use (Thomas et al, 1996).

Breastfeeding should be encouraged in women who are stable on their opioid agonist, who are not using illicit drugs, and who have no other contraindications, such as HIV infection (73, 74).

The recommendations described in this report include infants sleeping on their back, using a firm sleep surface, to breastfeed, room - sharing without bed - sharing, routine immunizations, consideration of a pacifier, and avoidance of soft bedding, overheating, and exposure to tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

Students learn their application when analyzing samples for dyes, such as those occurring on textile fibers; when analyzing samples for the presence of materials such as petrol which may have been used to start fires; or when testing for the presence of illicit drugs in a variety of sample types.

When the researchers tracked one city over a month, they found that use of «recreational» illicit drugs such as cocaine spiked on weekends, whereas other drugs such as methamphetamine showed a consistent presence in wastewater.

«Part of my job is to collate information on the techniques used to manufacture illicit drugs and to investigate the availability of a number of key chemicals which are essential for their production.

«Sleep difficulties at the first wave significantly predicted alcohol - related interpersonal problems, binge drinking, gotten drunk or very high on alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol, getting into a sexual situation one later regretted due to drinking, and ever using any illicit drugs and drugs - related problems at the second wave,» said Wong.

«Although Ritalin's effectiveness in treating ADHD is well - documented, few studies have looked at the drug's effect on non-prescribed illicit use,» says Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA.

But perhaps even more staggering is that, according to different studies, only 10 percent of people with substance use disorders receive any type of treatment for their dependency on alcohol, prescription medications and / or illicit drugs — even if they're patients at a hospital.

Or in some cases using an illicit drug, like smoking marijuana on the weekend, without telling you.

The two groups had different views on the risks of smoking, drinking and illicit drug use.

Across the country this spring, hundreds of high - school students have been arrested because their sale or use of illicit drugs on school grounds was observed by undercover narcotics agents posing as students.

Overall illicit - drug use among 12 - to 17 - year - olds has doubled since 1992 on a percentage basis.

Unacceptable books • Books glorifying or promoting the use of illicit drugs, drug paraphernalia or products to beat drug tests • Books with content that is obscene, defamatory, libelous, illegal, invasive of another's privacy, or contains hate speech • Books with content that is threatening, abusive, harassing, or that discriminate or advocate against a protected group, whether based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other category

Objective, educational or historical political content may be accepted • Foul, vulgar, or obscene language, including censored words that indicate foul, vulgar, or obscene language • Images of human or animal abuse, mistreatment, or distress • Images or titles glorifying or promoting the use of illicit drugs, drug paraphernalia or products to beat drug tests • Images or titles that are obscene, defamatory, libelous, illegal, invasive of another's privacy, or contain hate speech • Images or titles that may be interpreted as threatening, abusive, harassing, or that discriminate or advocate against a protected group, whether based on race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other category.

According to the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 20.7 million people drove under the influence of alcohol in the last year and 11.8 million drove under the influence of illicit drugs.

In this article, we focus on the judicial treatment of a seemingly primitive example: the use of behavioural science techniques to train dogs to perceive the scent of illicit drugs.

Assaults are all too common at bars and nightclubs where the use of alcohol or even illicit drugs might cause patrons» tempers to flare and violence to ensue from relatively minor slights, such as accidentally bumping someone on the dance floor.

The more likely concern they had was that Ledger had initially lied 7 months earlier on his application about any illicit drug use.

While the KCS did not disclose whether it is taking any legal actions currently against these businesses, it said it will continue the effort in investigating on similar activities as well as illicit use of cryptocurrency in money laundering and smuggling illegal goods such as drugs.

While there are many benefits of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, there have been quite a number of cases of drug lords using these blockchain - based virtual currencies to facilitate their illicit deals on the Dark Net.

As a result, the issue of illicit drug use and its impact on the workplace is top of mind for many HR, staffing and recruiting professionals.

This was assessed via 3 measures: (1) parental cigarette smoking (for the month before assessment) at the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up; (2) parental alcohol problems, based on questions from the Composite International Diagnostic Inventory35 relating to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition36 alcohol abuse / dependence symptom criteria, in the 12 months before the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up; and (3) parental use of cannabis or other illicit drugs, since the previous assessment, at the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year follow - up.

As noted earlier, Felitti et al. (1998) original ACE study clearly showed that people who reported experiencing a greater number of ACEs were more likely to smoke, drink heavily, and uses illicit drugs; additional studies placed an even greater focus on this linkage.

Despite this associative evidence, to the authors» knowledge, existing systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of school - based substance use interventions have not reported the effectiveness of universal resilience - based interventions on adolescent substance use.4 — 6, 37 Three existing Cochrane reviews have individually examined the efficacy of school - based tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use programmes.4 — 6 Such reviews have not reported outcomes for universal resilience - based interventions specifically, but have included such interventions in broader categories of intervention type for subgroup analysis.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 24.6 million people over the age of 12 have used illicit drugs in America, representing 9.4 % of the population.

In 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that 24.6 million Americans over the age of 12 had used illicit drugs.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use to the U.S. economy is estimated at more than $ 700 billion annuaDrug Abuse, the costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use to the U.S. economy is estimated at more than $ 700 billion annuadrug use to the U.S. economy is estimated at more than $ 700 billion annually.

Despite the fact that Hispanic (eighth grade) adolescents have the highest lifetime drug - use prevalence rates across all major illicit drugs (except amphetamines)(Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005), and Hispanic high school students have the highest rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse (CDC - P, 2004b) compared to African American and non-Hispanic Whites, research on the efficacy of drug abuse and HIV prevention programs for Hispanics is lacking (González - Castro et al., 2003).