Sentences with phrase «on synthetic drugs»

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

Citing improvements in town administration, a ban on synthetic drugs and cancellation of a tax agreement with a controversial affordable housing development in Glasco, Town Supervisor Kelly Myers announced her candidacy for a second term last week.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

Hemp is Legal in Amsterdam and some parts of the US... White men taught their stupid slaves, that hemp is bad... Instead of focusing resources on synthetic drugs and hard drugs like heroin, cocaine e.t.c, this bunch of morons are blinder than bats..

Not since the bath salts craze of 2012 have local police and emergency personnel come across so many agitated individuals high on synthetic drugs.

Schneiderman is getting creative in his war on synthetic drugs, s getting creative in his war on synthetic drugs, targeting retailers who sell mislabeled hallucinogens like bath salts and fake pot instead of going after manufacturers, who can simply tweak the chemicals in their product to stay a step ahead of the law.

Not exact matches

Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral and central nervous system; they include paracetamol (acetaminophen), the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as the salicylates, narcotic drugs such as morphine, synthetic drugs with narcotic properties such as tramadol, and various others.

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

Synthetic oxytocin, which mimics the effects of natural oxytocin on a pregnant woman's uterus, was first marketed in the 1950's, and has largely replaced ergometrine, although a combination drug, called syntometrine, is still used, especially for severe haemorrhage.

Synthetic drugs, for example, might not show up on a screening even though they can be just as dangerous as other drugs.

PLEASANT PLAINS — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced his support for a plan to close a loophole that allows drug dealers to stay a step ahead of law enforcement as they tweak the formula to a deadly synthetic opioid to avoid harsher sentencing.

Rep. John Katko has introduced a House bill that he said would significantly cut the time it takes to identify and place synthetic drugs, like Spice, on the federal Controlled Substance list.

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.

Authorities have more power to crack down on shops selling synthetic marijuana after the City Council voted unanimously to pass three bills aimed at halting the spread of the drug.

After several dozen people in Brooklyn were hospitalized this week after consuming the synthetic drug K2, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday plans to tackle the issue statewide.

The Suffolk County district attorney called for efforts to combat what he said is a surging heroin and synthetic drug epidemic following two high - profile drug cases on Long Island.

AT 6:30 p.m., Rep. John Katko holds a public forum on how heroin and synthetic drug abuse have impacted central New York, Oswego City Hall's Common Council Chambers, 13 W. Oneida St., Oswego.

He demanded the DEA act on 2012 legislation which gave it the power to investigate, ban and shut down the distribution of synthetic drugs like «Spice» or «K2» and the ingredients used to make them.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer held a pack of gum in one hand and a container of synthetic pot in the other as he called on the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to crack down on the sale of legal chemical substances used to create new synthetic drug combinatiDrug Enforcement Agency to crack down on the sale of legal chemical substances used to create new synthetic drug combinatidrug combinations.

Rep. John Katko ha introduced a House bill that he said would significantly cut the time it takes to identify and place synthetic drugs, like Spice, on the federal Controlled Substance list.

Following a police raid Wednesday on five Brooklyn bodegas after a wave of suspected overdoses of synthetic marijuana, Cuomo today announced stepped - up enforcement efforts to crack down on the illegal sale of the drug known as K2.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl has surpassed heroin as the most deadly drug on Long Island.

Fitzpatrick pulled Katko aside Dec. 14 after a joint news conference about the congressman's bill to crack down on the sale and distribution of synthetic drugs.

Monday At 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Bronx County Courthouse, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman «will announce a major crackdown on distributors of synthetic marijuana and other designer drugs.»

The New York Department of Health announced Thursday emergency regulations broadening the ban on synthetic marijuana to try to keep up with drug makers.

New York has broadened a ban on synthetic marijuana to keep up with drug makers who create new chemical recipes to evade the existing law.

New York is moving to expand a ban on synthetic marijuana to keep with drug makers who create new chemical recipes to evade the existing law.

The package of bills would build upon existing laws by focusing on enforcement to hold drug dealers more accountable, improve regulation of synthetic opioids, and improve the state's treatment programs to help assist individuals with recovery, among other measures.

While synthetic drugs are still showing up legally on retail store shelves, Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) introduced legislation this week that would make it easier to prosecute the distributors.

«Synthetic drugs can be as dangerous as any drug out on the street,» he said.

«I remain focused, as I always have, on fighting for central New York's priorities in Congress — working to grow our local economy and strengthen infrastructure, bolstering national security to keep our country safe and addressing the heroin and synthetic drug epidemic devastating our community,» he said.

Senator Klein has documented the prevalence of synthetic marijuana as a growingly popular recreational drug that can be easily found on the internet and in neighborhood stores and they are now flowing freely into the prison system.

HARLEM — Stores that sell synthetic marijuana could lose their tobacco licenses or be shuttered as nuisances under proposed legislation designed to crackdown on sale of the drug, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Metropolitan Hospital Center Community Advisory Board will host a community forum about synthetic drugs at the Children's Aid Society.

Combined with the profusion of synthetic drugs on the market, this can present major problems.

Despite being outlawed in 2012 in the U.S., the synthetic drugs known as «bath salts» — which really aren't meant for your daily bath — are still readily available in some retail shops, on the Internet and on the streets.

Scientists have been working successfully on different techniques to identify the synthetic drugs, but the methods aren't portable.

Alone at the bench, wearing a synthetic - fiber sweatshirt, she put on goggles and gloves and began the procedure Harran had outlined to her that morning as part of work to develop a drug to treat obesity.

Only a couple of these synthetic DNA drugs are on the market, but a number are in clinical trials, including a potential treatment for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Drug overdoses are taking a huge toll on public health, with potent synthetic drugs posing a particular threat.

Dr. Palamar posits that it is likely that many of these synthetic marijuana users resort to trying this «legal,» but more dangerous version of marijuana in order to avoid possible arrest, detection on drug screenings, or the stigma associated with being an illicit drug user.

Scientists have been focused for many years on developing synthetic drugs in the lab, worried that all the useful antibiotics in soil have already been found.

Now that Zhong and his Ohio State colleagues better understand the DNA - repairing process, they are hoping that synthetic photolyase could be produced, and incorporated into drugs or lotions for use on human sunburn victims.

The molecular structure of prescribed synthetic hormone is the same for every single person on that drug.

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According to their findings, 10.5 million people were receiving thyroid prescription drugs including natural and synthetic therapy and 18.5 million people were on antidepressants such as SSRIs, SNRIs and newer generation products.

As someone with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, I have read that raw kale and other raw cruciferous veggies can have goitrogenic effects on the thyroid (the ability to cause a goiter and slow down the thyroid, much like anti-thyroid drugs do), and can even affect the absorption of synthetic thyroid hormone medicaiton.

Synthroid or levothyroxine (synthetic thyroid medication) is the 4th best selling drug on the market, yet with more thyroid medication being prescribed the problem doesn't seem to be getting better.

Though in 2011 the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) voted against putting warning labels on foods containing synthetic dyes in the US, some American stores such as Whole Foods do not sell products containing artificial dyes.

If an individual takes much of synthetic drugs each day then the toxins will keep on building up which then results in breaking down slowly the organs.