Sentences with phrase «on powerful drugs»

It tells the story of a famed contract hitman who takes vengeance on a powerful drug cartel after the murder of his lover.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

As the BBC put it in 2014, «the Russian mafia is believed to control some prime real estate in Panama City while the Sinaloa Cartel — perhaps the most powerful drug - trafficking organization in the world — brings its cocaine from Colombia via Panama on its route north.»

Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin.

His attacks on the powerful Roman Catholic Church and his championing of causes, such as the legalization of soft drugs, gay rights and liberalization of Poland's strict abortion laws, have impressed many young voters.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said on Thursday that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a significant shift in policy for the Democratic leader and lending the movement to lower government barriers to the drug a powerful ally.

A heroin epidemic on Staten Island is being linked to pairing the drug with a powerful painkiller.

Dr. David Brizer accused of selling prescription drugs to dealers PRESS RELEASE FROM AG»S OFFICE Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a 55 - count indictment against Dr. David Brizer on charges he sold prescriptions for oxycodone and other powerful pain medications to drug dealers from his Rockland County and Midtown Manhattan offices.

Eleven forms of fentanyl, a powerful and deadly opioid, should be added to New York State's controlled substance list to boost enforcement, and insurance companies should be forced to reimburse first responders for higher doses of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed Thursday on Long Island.

Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels.

Cuomo also suggested that the ever - powerful pharmaceutical companies that make opioids educate doctors on the adverse affects of the drugs.

«Our aggressive posture on DWI is an effort to really send a powerful message and get people to think twice about operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The Lasker Foundation's first ever award to a Chinese scientist working on the mainland has reignited a 30 - year controversy over whether one person should be recognized for developing a powerful antimalarial drug that was the product of a massive government project during China's Cultural Revolution.

These combination treatments rely on an artemisinin derivative for their powerful punch and contain a second drug to make it more difficult for the parasite to become resistant.

But in the 1950s Stephen Szara, a Hungarian chemist who later worked for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, discovered that when injected, DMT triggers an extremely powerful hallucinogenic trip lasting less than an hour.

The drug is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, the drug that pop star Prince overdosed on earlier this year.

«These findings not only offer a glimpse into how these powerful new models can shed light on disease mechanisms» said Dr. Miller, «They may also prove invaluable for screening potential drugs that could be developed into better treatments for Alzheimer's disease, FTD, and related conditions.»

The issue isn't as significant as it used to be thanks to the powerful new drugs on the market, says Dr. Kolber.

His lawyers reportedly plan to call on a psychiatrist who studies the mental effects of this powerful drug, according to the New York Post.

Thyroid for Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the detailed information you're looking for on new methods for detecting thyroid disease in both adults and children, alternative treatments, pros and cons of powerful new drugs now on the market, advice for managing the disease through changes in exercise and diet, and much more.

Ginger: ginger is an amazing anti-inflammatory food that has a more powerful effect on the body than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

The discussion over a possible association between food additives and an array of childhood behavioral issues like ADHD, has carried on for many years, fueled by the desire of parents to find a treatment that doesn't involve powerful drugs.

But what most people may not know, is that some of the most powerful pharmaceutical drugs on the market, are made from plant extracts or based on natural, nutritional compounds.

Pharmaceuticals can be very powerful, but on the other hand, a drug that is taken incorrectly and without precautions can have serious and even fatal consequences.

As we discussed in a previous episode of HPAY, antibiotics and their devastating cousins the «HIV antiretrovirals» take us into bacterial resistance and dependence on ever more powerful drugs.

I am simply asking you to question whether your medication is absolutely necessary or is simply being pushed on you by a powerful company for profit or a doctor who is doing the only thing he was taught — using drugs to treat every ailment.

Imagine a world where everyone is on powerful cholesterol - lowering drugs.

John Steele, a Vietnam veteran and ex-cop, is on a mission to bring down Kwan, a former South Vietnamese general turned rich and powerful drug lord in this action drama from director Robert Boris.

Permanent Midnight deglorifies drug addiction on a more linear level than Trainspotting (1996), but not nearly as well as Otto Preminger's then - powerful and still memorable The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Instead of infiltrating a high school, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go to college this time, but on an identical mission: to find the source of a powerful new drug being passed around campus.

Led by a detective hell - bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug...

While members of the world's most powerful drug cartels, mobs and undercover groups converge on the sale site, the girls try to uncover the conspirator before the names of thousands of people in the Witness Protection Program are decoded.

Whether it's Jan Rader, the first responder on the scene trying to resuscitate an overdose victim, or Judge Patricia Keller presiding over Drug Court, McMillion takes us on the scene in her powerful and extremely haunting documentary short.

Benedict Cumberbatch fills the screen as a drug - dazed antihero, and a powerful Dispatches reports on the plight of the Rohingya

With body - on - frame construction and a fairly agricultural 1.3 - liter overhead valve engine, the MG was far from modern or refined in post-war America, but it gave thousands of people their first taste of what a sports car should feel like and served as a gateway drug to both racing and more expensive, more powerful sports cars.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug — just ask any Nintendo fan still trying to get their hands on a SNES Classic.

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.

Here is a powerful video on the lack of affordability of prescription drugs created by the Spanish - speaking older women's group of the South Granville Seniors Centre as part of this phase of the project:

«Constable Al Arsenault, along with six other policemen, document the people on their beat to create a powerful film about drug abuse.

In November, a presidential commission headed by Mr. Trump's one - time political rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, issued a 56 - recommendation report that included calls for the federal government to set up drug courts across the U.S., retrain medical prescribers on opioid use and reduce incentives for doctors to offer the powerful painkillers.

In the past, the pharmaceutical industry has been one of the most powerful opponents to patent reform on the grounds that it could weaken incentives to develop new drugs.