Sentences with phrase «use of drugs like»

Some of this is covered with the blood test, but a urine test for a full drug panel will alert the carrier to the use of drugs like amphetamines, cocaine, barbiturates, and more.

Some of this is covered with the blood test, but a urine test for a full drug panel will alert the carrier to the use of drugs like amphetamines, cocaine, barbiturates, and more.

According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, use of drugs like Ritalin has risen 250 % since 1990.

Currently, conventional preventive medical approaches to inflammation are limited to the use of CRP to predict cardiovascular disease in high - risk subjects, and the prophylactic use of drugs like aspirin to inhibit the inflammatory cascade linked to thrombosis (uncontrolled blood clotting).

Christians can disagree about the use of drugs like marijuana and their legal status, but we should be united in our agreement that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

Not exact matches

Genmab's strategy is to use its growing royalty stream from Darzalex to invest in its next wave of medicines like cervical cancer drug tisotumab vedotin, which is being developed in a 50/50 partnership with Seattle Genetics.

Such concern has sparked the launch of the Obama administration's five - year plan to combat antibiotic resistance, as well as the Food and Drug Administration's new guidelines aiming to restrict antibiotic use in farm animal products, like meat and poultry, that make it to our dinner plates.

«My words have been grossly mischaracterized and taken out of context... I was discussing the value of treating people for using dangerous and illegal drugs like marijuana, and the context in which treatment is successful.»

But in a country like the U.S., where drug makers are used to getting their products covered and many patients are used to the option of accessing a wide array of medicines if they so choose, the policy would get some fierce political pushback from powerful stakeholders.

In early March, the J.M. Smucker Co. recalled more than 107 million cans of dog food — sold under popular brands like Gravy Train and Kibbles»n' Bits — after determining it had used ingredients containing toxic euthanasia drugs.

Or, to use Horowitz's more colorful metaphor: «Hiring senior people into a start - up is kind of like an athlete taking performance - enhancing drugs.

Even as his counterparts like Atlanta rapper Killer Mike — who has been very vocal about America's racist war on drugs and his own political beliefs — used their celebrity for fundraising, meetings with politicians, and self - penned articles; the rapper usually left politics to the side as he expanded his business and rose to the top of the corporate ladder.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

He said: «If more Christians... were more active in making sure they did write to people like Boots, but also any other group that is attempting to expand the use of this sort of drugs, they would have an effect as well.»

We can address issues like crime and habitual drug use only if we are willing to address the social universe that fosters a complex set of behaviors and expectations.

They are beginning to offer services above and beyond shelter: training in household management, daily monitoring of lifestyle habits like drug use, directed job - searches, organized support groups and pep - sessions and sanctions on miscreant behavior.

Just like drugs, guns will never be totally eradicated from our society so we need to arm ourselves to protect our loved ones from those wishing to do bodily harm with the use of a firearm.

I have seen people use the words of Jesus «judge not» as a shield to allow themselves to participate in whatever destructive behaviors they feel like indulging in, (including child neglect, spousal abuse, drug abuse, fraud, and adultery).

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

In Cornwall a document (www.interconmtrust.org.uk?resources / cornwall schools transgender guidance) concocted by the education authority and various groups including, worryingly, the police, announces that a child who thinks that he or she would like to be a member of the opposite sex, should be urged to succumb to the fantasy and begin the process that will lead to the use of physical mutilation accompanied by hormonal drugs.

Satan attacks me in my thoughts day and night and he makesit so i can barely eat i pray to the lord and he consoles me god is REAL i used to e a drug dealer the most violent and disruptive of men and one night i came under attack from satan and felt like satan was makeing me into someone im not putting thoughts in my head of death suicide and sexual immorality then i read the wqordof god and everything felt better when i read the Book «The Advocate» spiritual warfare is real and god can save you from satans tourment do nt let Satan claim the rights to your soul i had trouble believing in god for years my mind worked in science and fact but the fact is that God is real and living and when you leave this earth you Will face Judgement

«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Only changes; didn't make pickled onions because I had the soup and used high quality toasted hamburger rolls for the sandwich's, helped absorb the nice juices, my boyfriend had seconds of everything and between the lunch and the race and his couch he looked like he had been drugged with love!

And since yogurt sauce is clearly our drug of choice, we asked Sternberg how he likes to use it.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

And instead of having a celebration that champions drug use like the «dab» - Pyeton gracously celebrated his victory by talking about how much legal budweiser beer he was going to drink.

In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal out onto the track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.

This is mainly because more people are using fertility treatments, like drugs that spur the release of multiple eggs or in vitro fertilization, in which more than one embryo is implanted in order to increase the chance of a successful pregnancy.

But it is very important for parents to puzzle out whether or not their teen is using any type of drug as teen drug use can lead to sad consequences - like your teen not reaching their full potential or much worse consequences like death.

There are warning signs of teen drug use including things like grades dropping, mood swings and loss of interest in their hobbies or family.

We would like to work with a group of fathers who have some or limited experience of drugs and alcohol within their families to look at developing a toolkit for fathers to use with their children.

But if you get participation rates up to 40 percent or 50 percent or 60 percent, then taking part will come to seem normal, and some of the behaviors that used to seem commonplace in Harlem — teenage pregnancy, drug use, dropping out of school — will start to seem like the oddball path.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires manufacturers of infant formula to analyze each batch to verify nutrient levels and stamp every container with a «use by» date — just like the ones found on milk, eggs, and other perishables.

Traumatic birthing experiences, like the use of drugs to induce labor and numb pain, internal electrode probes screwed onto baby's scalp, forceps, C - section, immediate cord clamping, suctioning, rough handling, bright lights, separation from mom and being left alone in a nursery incubator etc., can be hard - wired into a deep memory base that you, as a now functioning adult, can't even remember, let alone access!

But it's difficult to isolate drug use as the cause of those problems because drug use tends to be associated with other factors like poverty, poor nutrition, poor maternal health, low socio - economic status, continuing to smoke / drink during pregnancy — and all of these are associated with poor outcomes.

I like the suggestion of using a movie or t.v. shop as a springboard to talk to your kids about drugs.

Some of these risks, such as anemia, slow maternal weight gain, stressful work habits, smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs like cocaine, can be rectified during pregnancy.

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

This comprises the use of an oxytocic agent - a drug that, like oxytocin, causes the uterus to contract strongly - given usually by injection into the mothers thigh as the baby is born, as well as early cord clamping, and «controlled cord traction» - that is, pulling on the cord to deliver the placenta as quickly as possible.

While the exact number of women using the drugs is difficult to determine, the topic is hotly discussed at breastfeeding support groups like La Leche League and in online new - mother forums.

McKenna and Gettler also point out that there are other factors at work — like sleep position, drug / alcohol use, pacifier use and whether or nor the infant was being breastfed at the time of death — which can alter bed - sharing statistics.

General Anesthesia: The use of drugs that produce a sleep - like state to prevent pain during surgery.

Like I said I am kind of becoming an expert in this lately and I even are willing to give any group presentation on Domperidone, everything about it, the Orphan Drug status up to everything they need to know about using it and using it compatibly.

That lack of stability — defined as the rotating crop of parent - like figures who transition in and out of kids» lives — is tied to school failure, behavior problems, drug use and loneliness.

Cannabis makes up the lion's share of illicit drug use and some experts believe the drug has declined in popularity, like tobacco, because smoking itself is increasingly seen as unfashionable.

Sen. Chuck Schumer says the Food and Drug Administration should immediately ban e-cigarette flavors like candy and cookies that can appeal to young people in the wake of warnings that teens and children are increasingly using e-cigarettes.

As reported by the Times, the makers of Vivitrol have gained market share by portraying it as preferable to drugs like buprenorphine and methadone, which are themselves opioids used in controlled doses to manage cravings.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Sen. Chuck Schumer says the Food and Drug Administration should immediately ban e-cigarette flavors like candy and cookies that can appeal to young people in the wake of warnings that teens and children are increasingly using e-cigarettes.