Sentences with phrase «use of drugs such»

As a result of his work, the only legal, supervised drug injection site in North America will stay open to provide a safe place for use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and morphine.

Dog diarrhea treatment may also include the use of some drugs such as anti — diarrheal, anti — helmintics (anti worm), antibiotics, minerals or antidotes that address the underlying cause.

Another current article describes the illegal use of drugs such as hydrocodone, fentanyl, duragesic, and morphine (opiods); taken in combination by a breastfeeding mother, resulting in her infant's death.

Not exact matches

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

That data is combined with information gathered from the participant, such as drug preferences, history of use, and trigger words.

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.

From supporting projects that I'm passionate about, such as being an advocate for gay rights, to drug policy reform, to using my voice and that of the Virgin Group to shine a spotlight on issues that I believe are unacceptable, such as poaching and the death penalty.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, a couple of senators aren't happy with the way such a system can be used to buy and sell drugs and other illegal items over the Internet, something that has also torpedoed previous attempts to set up virtual currencies.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

One of the biggest challenges facing financial institutions is the need to prevent their systems being used to transfer funds for criminal activity such as the drugs trade or terrorism.

The problem is that many people are already using this type of currency for illegal transactions such as buying drugs, murder for hire and other criminal activities.

One of the clearest answers seems to be that it's gotten harder to use bitcoin for some of its less savory uses, such as dodging taxes and buying drugs.

Nevertheless, when one reads, for instance, of how the Eli Lilly company used homeless alcoholics for testing experimental drugs, it is hard not to believe that such guinea pigs are being exploited, even if they may welcome their improved living conditions during the course of the research.

Utah also leads the nation in the use of narcotic painkillers such as codeine and morphine - based drugs, the study found.

Properly used, statistics about higher levels of promiscuity, drug abuse, depression and such amongst gay people lead groups to ask why this is so that we can begin to reverse such troubling threads.

We witness examples of such devastation in our countries such as through the use of chemical pesticides and even fertilizers, the deporting of our mineral wealth by mining transnational corporations, the exploitation of our workers, women and children and the ill - effects of drugs, arms sales and even of some types of tourism.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Everyone needs to be taught the right use of other drugs such as digestion aids, cathartics, reducing pills, stimulants, pain relievers, and tranquilizers.

But serious issue may be taken with the frequent and somewhat indiscriminate use of such drugs as antibiotics.

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.

Such were our ponderings when encountered by Peter D. Kramer's book on the use of antidepressant drugs and «the remaking of the self» (Listening to Prozac, Viking).

They challenged routine procedures such as the episiotomy, the use of pain - killing drugs, and the use of forceps, which sometimes resulted in damage to the newborn.

About five percent are used for teaching purposes, another five percent for diagnosis of disease, twenty percent for production of biological substances («biologicals») and for toxicity testing, thirty percent in development of drugs and their testing, and forty percent for other research activities such as the present work in genetic engineering to increase the size of sheep and pigs.

Many of the Christian networks require that members belong to a church and meet certain moral standards, such as avoiding drug use and not having sex outside of marriage.

Wisely and sparingly used, such drugs can open patients to various forms of therapy.

When inflammation strikes, we are conditioned into reaching for a quick fix in the way of pharmaceutical or prescribed drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, temporary panacea's that come with their own adverse side effects and with long term use have the potential to create a host of health problems independently.

«The safety of low - kilojoule sweeteners used in diet drinks is supported by leading regulatory agencies throughout the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Food Safety Authority, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand — as well as leading health groups, including the Australian Diabetes Council and Dieticians Association of Australia.»

Today, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) announced its concern over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision rejecting a call to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging in even the most vulnerable populations such as children and child - bearing women.

Glass Packaging Institute Expresses Concern over FDA Decision on BPA, March 30, 2012 Today, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) announced its concern over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision rejecting a call to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging in even the most vulnerable populations such as children and child - bearing women.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., — Today, the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) announced its concern over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision rejecting a call to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging in even the most vulnerable populations such as children and child - bearing women.

Then Scoville gets down to the real nitty - gritty: «Moreover, the pharmacist should remember that such conditions as are found in opium or cocaine habitues (not to say drunkards), often originate in the use of a prescription containing one of these drugs in some form, originally prescribed for a legitimate purpose, but renewed from time to time until the habit is established.»

But the remainder of Dennis» statement — a condemnation of drug use and praise for the strict Pan Am testing — clearly implied such guilt and left the impression that the point of the exercise was to make an example of the Caracas 12.

«The testing,» Ellis wrote, «is of such a sophisticated nature that... drug use six months prior to the day of the test can be verified.»

According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, first - time use of most substances, such as drugs and alcohol, among youth peaks during the summer months of June and JuUse and Health, first - time use of most substances, such as drugs and alcohol, among youth peaks during the summer months of June and Juuse of most substances, such as drugs and alcohol, among youth peaks during the summer months of June and July.

The need for such testing may be brought to the attention of the principal through a search authorized by § 49-6-4204 or § 49-6-4205, observed or reported use of drugs by the student on school property, or other reasonable information received from a teacher, staff member or other student.

The researchers also found that many of the studies showed that children who had restrictive parents were less likely to get involved in negative behaviors such as cyberbullying, drug use, vandalism, and theft, and were less likely to have poor body image — factors the study authors called «negative consumer socialization outcomes.»

The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against the use of marijuana during pregnancy and while breastfeeding: «Street drugs such as PCP (phencyclidine), cocaine, and cannabis can be detected in human milk, and their use by breastfeeding mothers is of concern, particularly with regard to the infant's long - term neurobehavioral development and thus are contraindicated.»

If it's a matter of safety, such as drug use, then limit contact to letters or emails, but explain that change to the other party and to the adoptee.

DO: - Take multivitamins or prenatal vitamin with 400 - 800 micrograms of folic acid every day - Eat healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other unprocessed carbohydrates - Partake in moderate aerobic activity to keep you up your activity level - Ask questions about topics that are worrying you DO N'T: - Stay away from raw fish or other uncooked or unwashed foods - Don't drink alcohol, smoke, or use any drugs.

Here are some of the excluding criteria most experts agree on: «Obese parents; parents who smoke (either during pregnancy or at present); parents sleeping on a waterbed, recliner, sofa, armchair, couch or bean bag; parents who sleep on multiple pillows, a sagging mattress or a sheepskin or use heavy bedding, such as comforters or duvets; sleeping in overheated rooms; parents under the influence of drugs or alcohol; other children or pets who can or are likely to climb into the bed; and stuffed animals on the bed that could cover the baby's face.»

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.

Many of the epidural side effects mentioned below are not improved with low - dose or walking epidurals, because women using these techniques may still receive a substantial total dose of local anesthetic, especially when continuous infusions and / or patient - controlled boluses (single large doses) are used.34 The addition of opiate drugs in epidurals or CSEs can create further risks for the mother, such as pruritus (itching) and respiratory depression (see below).

The results held true even when researchers accounted for potentially confounding factors such as the presence of aggression within the family and parental stress, depression and drug or alcohol use.

Because unauthorized use of such drugs is a growing problem, authorities encourage the public to dispose of unwanted medications.

They conclude that risk reduction messages to prevent sudden infant deaths should be targeted more appropriately to unsafe infant care practices such as sleeping on sofas, bed - sharing after the use of alcohol or drugs, or bed - sharing by parents who smoke, and that advice on whether bed - sharing should be discouraged needs to take into account the important relationship with breastfeeding.

Any way you look at it, this is really good news: fewer highly processed and par - fried chicken nuggets and patties on lunch trays, and significant support for a farm willing to raise livestock without antibiotics, a practice that may well be undermining the medicinal use of such drugs and contributing to the rise of dangerous «superbugs.»

For adolescents and teenagers, such rules should include expectations about drinking, the use of illegal drugs, or safe defensive driving.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.