Sentences with phrase «on psychoactive»

Psychiatrist: Psychiatrists have a specialized medical degree, which allows them to prescribe medication with a focus on psychoactive medications for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder for example.

The overindulgence in and dependence on a psychoactive leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical health or mental health, or the welfare of others.

If your pet has an aggressive problem, particularly if it involves children, or is on psychoactive medication (prescribed previously by another veterinarian or by Dr. Schwartz) it will need to be closely monitored and a recheck appointment is important.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

Further evidence from Ireland, where a similar ban on all psychoactive substances exist, shows that prosecutions are highly difficult.

Not exact matches

We know from cases of brain damage and the effects of psychoactive drugs, that our experiences are caused by physical chemistry acting on our physical neurons in our brains.

Just a note that I found the general recipe to be effective even without using nutmeg, which can be a controversial ingredient due to psychoactive properties (I wouldn't want to get high on my pie).

If you've been on the conscious eating path for any length of time, then you may already know that hemp seeds sold for kitchen use contain a completely insignificant amount of THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gets people «high»)... just in case you wondered.

Data on the long - term safety of psychoactive drugs are limited, yet the report does not recommend advising these women to stop breastfeeding.

As time goes on, however, many adolescents come to rely heavily on substances in social situations, creating a false perception that socializing without the crutch of a psychoactive substance is impossible.

In addition, the long - term effect of psychoactive drugs on the nursing infant should be handled cautiously, with risk - benefit counseling, and possible monitoring of infant growth and neurodevelopment.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is effectively being dismantled by the psychoactive substances bill - leaving drug policy now entirely evidence - free.

You see, the British politicians who came up with the Psychoactive Substances Bill have been very keen to stress how greatly they admire Ireland's stance on this issue.

However, since introducing their version of our Psychoactive Substances Bill, the Irish have, in the last few months alone, begun to make surprisingly fast progress on real reform.

The Psychoactive Substances Bill was modelled on a similar piece of legislation from the Republic of Ireland.

It actually supports a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances.

One of the primary functions of the psychoactive substances bill is to sideline the council, mostly because it keeps on doing things like this.

We were aware of an assault on a member of staff from someone who was using psychoactive substances and was normally very well behaved.»

The deafening chorus of criticism over the psychoactive substances bill grew even louder today when the home secretary's own drug advisers launched a blistering attack on it.

Before the psychoactive substances bill even comes into force, Lambeth council is going ahead with its own mad variation on the theme

«Evidence is now emerging of so - called grey marketplaces — online sites selling new psychoactive substances which operate on both the surface and the deep web.

The item therefore has a psychoactive effect and has been supplied on the basis that it will trigger it.

A new psychoactive synthetic drug emerges on the market in the UK every week and most experts agree the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act is incapable of dealing with the rate of change.

This is our story about the advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on the scope and definitions of the psychoactive substances bill.

Addy wants the government to agree to a new test case to determine whether poppers fall within the definition described under the psychoactive substances bill and for the industry to be allowed to carry on functioning legally until an official decision has been reached.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

The decision to confirm the exclusion of poppers from the Psychoactive Substances Act, which will criminalise the trade in legal highs from April, was announced by a Home Office minister, Karen Bradley, on Tuesday.

«For reasons that are unclear, the Home Office did not consult the ACMD on the development or drafting of the [psychoactive substances] bill despite its obvious competence and authority, and indeed its specific legal remit under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to advise on precisely such matters.»

It suggested that the Irish equivalent to our Psychoactive Substances Bill was such a failure that it actually prompted real progress on drug reform in the country.

One of the least - noticed aspects of the new psychoactive substances bill is that it effectively scraps the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

«The ACMD's consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.»

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

For example, we have just introduced tougher new rules on drug driving, because getting behind the wheel under the influence of any psychoactive substance is a monumentally dangerous thing to do.

The government's new blanket ban on the supply of psychoactive substances, continued to cause controversy this week.

On this week's show: New research shows psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies, and a long - term study that questions how plants will deal with rising carbon dioxide levels

While some published steroids have a research trail, most psychoactive drugs have never been tested on humans — until, that is, they show up at clubs or parties.

Halpern and Pope won grants for their project not only from the National Institute on Drug Abuse but also from Harvard Medical School and two private foundations that support research on psychedelics: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and the Heffter Research Institute (named after the German chemist who isolated mescaline from peyote and discovered its psychoactive properties in the late 1800s).

Drug development efforts based on harmine will need to grapple with its known psychoactive effects on the brain, which may explain its traditional use in spiritual ceremonies and as medicine.

The use of novel psychoactive substances — synthetic compounds with stimulant or hallucinogenic effects — is on the rise.

The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, was mentioned in a presentation on the topic of medical marijuana to the New Mexico Legislative Health & Human Services Committee last November, and is now available from Routledge Journals with Free Access.

Their paper, «Examine Correlates of New Psychoactive Substance Use Among a Self - Selected Sample of Nightclub Attendees in the United States,» was recently published in The American Journal on Addictions.

Compared to alcohol, caffeine is on the other end of the spectrum of psychoactive drugs in that it is a stimulant.

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

Drug screens were done on the days of the scans to exclude the use of psychoactive drugs (other than marijuana in marijuana abusers).

Somewhere between the hemp seeds you sprinkle on your smoothie bowl and psychoactive marijuana is CBD hemp oil.

Our hemp seed oil is derived from the non drug type of Cannibis Sativa L. and therefore has no psychoactive properties or other effects on the body similar to the drug type.

Caffeine is considered the most commonly used psychoactive drug in the world, with approximately 90 percent of adults consuming it on a daily basis, mostly by drining coffee, soda and tea.

At any rate, caffeine is the most used psychoactive substance on the planet, therefore, it must have at least some grip on the billions of people who consume caffeine daily.

Whilst much of the past research on Cannabis sativa has focused explicitly on Tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), the chemical responsible for the psychoactive effects that the plant is more renowned for, research supporting CBD is beginning to emerge.

THC has a different effect than CBD on your body because CBD is not psychoactive.