Sentences with phrase «small amounts of drugs in»

The City claimed that no disability could be shown because Hartman stated he only used small amounts of drugs in the past and was therefore only a casual, voluntary user.

The Legal Aid Society is seeking an injunction compelling the NYPD to enforce a directive reminding officers that they may not arrest someone on a misdemeanor marijuana charge if they find small amounts of the drug in their clothing.

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Once the baby is born, he will be free of drug and the small amounts in the milk will not usually cause problems and you can restart the fluoxetine (Prozac).

Chicago's action puts it at odds with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which insists that the small amount of BPA in containers isn't dangerous.

Two case reports and two small case series subsequently have provided reassuring evidence regarding the limited amount of drug transferred to the infant through breast milk and the lack of adverse side effects noted in infants by nursing mothers.5 — 8

• A 19 - year - old Homer Glen man was charged with violating Orland Park ordinances against possessing cannabis and drug paraphernalia after a small amount of marijuana and a marijuana pipe were discovered in the vehicle he was in in an Orland Square Mall parking lot on March 13.

In July, Durham's police and crime commissioner said he would effectively decriminalise people who grew small amounts of cannabis, a move welcomed by those who argue that Britain's current drug laws are failing.

«But, in this country, if you're a young person — say out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

In this country, if you're a young person — say, out at a club with friends — and you get arrested for possession of a small amount of drugs, it's likely you'll end up with a criminal record.

In November, the commissioner and de Blasio announced NYPD officers would issue a ticket instead of arresting individuals caught with small amounts of the drug.

New York has a medical marijuana program and has decriminalized small amounts of pot, but racial disparities in punishment remain even though white people and people of color use the drug at similar rates.

In August, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico approved a law decriminalising possession of small amounts of marijuana and other drugs.

With the initial contract of $ 24.9 million over the next 18 months, Mapp Pharmaceutical will manufacture a small amount of the drug for early - stage clinical studies to demonstrate its safety and efficacy in people.

Small amounts of the silvery grey metal are used to speed up or «catalyze» a number of key industrial processes, including those that make drugs, detergents and nitrogen fertilizer, and they even play a major role breaking down toxic pollutants in the catalytic converters of our cars.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

Next, Grima looked at cell death in cultured neurons with a healthy or a mutant form of Huntingtin, or with a mutant form of Huntingtin that was treated with small amounts of an experimental drug called KPT - 350, one that prevents a nuclear export protein, Exportin - 1, from shuttling proteins and RNA out of the nucleus.

In other words, if an effect is obtained with a small amount of a drug, the treatment efficiency is high.)

They used very small amounts of serotonin and other drugs that interact with serotonin receptors and injected them into a part of the brainstem involved in the control apnea and regular breathing.

Even small quantities of aflatoxin can ruin a large harvest, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strict guidelines in place that limit the amount allowed in food to a mere 20 micrograms per kilogram, or 20 parts per billion (ppb).

«We can infuse very small amounts of multiple drugs compared to what we can do intravenously or orally, and also manipulate behavioral changes through drug infusion,» says Canan Dagdeviren, the LG Electronics Career Development Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and the lead author of the paper, which appears in the Jan. 24 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Smaller, cheaper and easier to breed than mice, zebrafish in their juvenile phase can actually live in the tiny amount of liquid — ranging from tens of nanoliters to several milliliters — that fits in the wells of a standard 96 - well plate used to screen drug compounds.

A drug in development would allow celiac patients to tolerate small amounts of gluten (though certainly not enough to eat a loaf of bread).

Edward Krenzelok, PharmD, director of the Pittsburgh Poison Control Center and Drug Information Center at the University of Pittsburgh (and lead author of the 1996 study), says that it is possible to become ill by consuming a large amount of the plant — but it's also rare, even in small children and pets.

Because inhalers often contain concentrated doses (often 200 doses in one small vial) of beta - agonist drugs (e.g., albuterol) or steroids (e.g., fluticasone), dogs that bite into them are exposed to massive amounts of the drugs all at once.

Worse yet, alerting to small amounts of marijuana could mess up prosecutions in cases involving other, still illegal, drugs.

In fact, many veterinarians suggest small amounts of this drug for various mild conditions.

According to Dr. Levy, it is important to control fleas and internal parasites in kittens because they are more vulnerable to these organisms than are adults.b However, care must be taken when treating kittens with certain products because it can be tricky to properly dose such small amounts of drugs, and overdosing can result in toxicity.

As a rule of thumb, those drugs are more apt to cause a problem when they are given orally or by injection and less likely to do so when massaged in small amounts into the skin of affected areas.

The next step will be investigating whether drugs like aspirin can help counteract blood clotting in mice (it's long been known that small amounts of aspirin can help thin the blood).

Small amounts of a drug called OvoControl P will be placed in bird food in new rooftop feeders around the city.

At the other end of the range stands the addict who is charged for sharing a small amount of a Schedule I drug with a friend or spouse, and finds herself sentenced to a year in prison because of a single conviction for sharing marihuana in a social occasion nine years before.

In the Oakes case itself, the Supreme Court found that the federal government failed to rationally connect Oakes» possession of a small amount of illegal drugs and money to the presumption that he was engaged in the crime of drug traffickinIn the Oakes case itself, the Supreme Court found that the federal government failed to rationally connect Oakes» possession of a small amount of illegal drugs and money to the presumption that he was engaged in the crime of drug traffickinin the crime of drug trafficking.

The Consequences of a Possession Charge A drug possession charge is quite simple to define: the knowing exercise of control and ownership over a controlled substance in sufficient quantities to trigger a relevant local, state or federal law (some drugs in some jurisdictions can be legally possessed in small amounts).

The «war on drugs» escalated in the»80s, and police tactics became increasingly aggressive — not just against gangs and drug traffickers, but against people keeping small amounts of marijuana for their own use.