NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is in New York City today, signing three bills related to
synthetic drugs into law.
«We now know the depth to which drug traffickers exploit our mail system to ship fentanyl and other
synthetic drugs into the United States,» said subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman.
Not exact matches
The method involves tagging a molecular
drug delivery vehicle with
synthetic DNA that can then be used to see how cancerous tumors are responding to specific treatments (the
drugs themselves are placed
into these tagged nanoparticles).
Meanwhile, Mexican producers — especially those in Sinaloa state — have moved heavily
into the production of heroin and
synthetic drugs like methamphetamine.
The investigation targeted
drug suppliers from New York and around the nation — and even overseas — who are using the U.S. Mail to ship narcotics and
synthetic drugs, along with other contraband,
into the region.
College athletic programs have already taken steps to incorporate
synthetic marijuana
into their banned substances and
drug testing programs.
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.
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.
Although new
synthetic drugs are closely evaluated for high specificity, high efficacy, low toxicity, and good pharmacokinetics, little attention is paid to the possibility that the chemically synthesized
drugs may eventually be discharged from the human body
into the environment in their original and / or metabolized forms.
«The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly
into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the
Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.
Increasingly,
drug users are turning to opioids and powerful
synthetic versions of these
drugs that can sometimes be as much as 100 times more potent than heroin,» says Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., who led the research
into the vaccines.
In one of the most elaborate feats of
synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar
into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling
drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.
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.
It is MY personal belief that we have the cure to cancer, AIDS, and other diseases but society, by looking «forward»
into man - made
synthetic drugs, has overlooked what has already been provided.
Synthetic prescription and over-the-counter
drugs conventionally used to treat inflammation rapidly build tolerance, leading the body
into a toxic cycle of
drug - dependence.
Terrified out of her mind, Lucy is forced to become a
drug mule, with a bag containing a highly potent
synthetic substance called CPH4 sewn
into her stomach.
A powerful new
synthetic drug is surgically implanted
into her stomach.
An unwilling
drug mule develops superhuman abilities after the
synthetic substance leaks
into her system.
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).
Jack's offer to help an old buddy's son escape a framed murder charge, leads ISP from Manchester and London, across Europe
into Lithuania and the mountains of Tajikistan hunting down the peddlers of illicit
synthetic drugs, murder, and prostitution rings.