Sentences with phrase «over illicit uses»

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Regulators have expressed concerns over digital assets due to their extremely volatile nature and worries that they could be used for illicit activity.

Over the years, a number of anonymous websites have sprung up to allow users to use bitcoins to purchase drugs and other illicit products.

It's also been accused of using its illicit Facebook data to exert untoward influence over voters.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

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.

«Over the past five to 10 years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.

Self - reported lifetime use, motives, socio - demographic and academic features for over the counter (OTC), medically prescribed (MPP), and illicit (IP) psychostimulant users were reported.

Last updated Feb. 15, 2017 The cannabis plant is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, as it is estimated that over 30 million Americans use the «green stuff» every year.

Previously, where a contract of insurance was bought over the internet by use of an illicit credit card, then, if the processing were entirely automated, no person would have been deceived, and there was no obvious offence committed.

The use of bitcoin for illicit purposes has long been the most controversial aspect of the cryptoasset, although it has taken a back seat to speculation around the bitcoin price over the past few years.

He argues that the absence of legal framework over cryptocurrency in Turkey could lead to illicit use.

Substance abuse in Denver is a significant problem, with 21 percent of the city's residents reporting use of illicit drugs over the course of the last year.

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.

The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the association of substance use, including nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs, and IPV for a sample of 160 generally lower socioeconomic status women studied over a number of years with the same male partner in the OYS - Couples study.

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

Rates of recent illicit substance use were fairly consistent for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in age groups 15 — 24 years (28 %), 25 — 34 years (27 %) and 35 — 44 years (23 %), before decreasing to 19 % of those aged 45 — 54 years and 7 % of those aged 55 years and over.

RESULTS FROM 2012 — 13 In 2012 — 13, just over one in five (22 %) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over said that they had used an illicit substance in the previous year, and a further 23 % at some other time in their life.

Marijuana was the most commonly reported illicit drug, having been used by one in five (19 %) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over in the previous year.

[126] Further, in 2012 - 13 one in five (22 %) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over said that they had used an illicit substance in the previous year.

Where does your information go when you hand your credit card or debit card over to a merchant who is holding a wireless debit machine, and what is the bit encryption level on the the unit the merchant is using; is the encryption level the same on every such machine; can you tell if there is an illicit card reader on the machine that your bank card is being processed through?