Sentences with phrase «with cocaine use»

In the course of the same year, almost 3.3 % of all those attended to in the outpatient clinics had been diagnosed with cocaine use or dependency.

So the natural extension of this paper's line of inquiry is how the positive and negative systems associated with cocaine use change when animals are exposed to multiple doses in any given day (i.e. addiction).

«Excess dopamine (as with cocaine use) can lead to euphoria, so perhaps oxytocin - mediated dopamine release is responsible for the feeling you describe.»

Not exact matches

A light April snow is falling as he tells me he used to drive commercial trucks up from Texas in the 1990s with packages of cocaine, smuggled from Mexico, hidden inside television sets.

He helped with homework, took the family on vacation, and was a decent father and husband, other than the fact that he used cocaine.

«In collaboration with international partners [we] identified a Romanian OCG [organised crime group] with the capability to import large amounts of cocaine into the UK on a weekly basis using HGV transport,» a NCA spokeswoman told The Times.

In effect he was saying that faith is an opiate, that men drug themselves with it, become sleepy, complacent and comfortable through the use of it, and that their main object in going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of men.

«I used Dagoba organic 87 % cacao chocolate (if you like dark chocolate, this stuff might as well be crack - cocaine), coconut oil, and cashew butter (pretty sure we discussed this at your birthday party, but I make my own with roasted cashews, agave nectar, and either coconut or safflower oil depending on what I have at the time).

The egg Jenna cracks with one expert hand is actually a sliced peach with corn syrup inside a plastic Easter egg (raw egg onstage = not sanitary); the melted chocolate is mixed with oil to pour smoothly and sensually; whipped cream pies are instead topped with buttercream so they won't melt under stage lights; and the flour they blow onto the crowd to end the recipe dream sequences is inositol, a powdered form of vitamin D that movie prop managers use to fake cocaine.

Reports have suggested that Hamilton has met with league officials to discuss an incident during the offseason in which he used drugs, reportedly including cocaine and alcohol.

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.»

This silent crying is related to smoking and cocaine use, but further research confirmed that this behavior was not associated with tobacco and cocaine exposure.

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

With his days as an FBI informant under the microscope again, the Rev. Al Sharpton insists he never used cocaine.

Congress obtained the power to lay and collect taxes on anything (including labor) in 1913 with the newly established 16th Amendment, and immediately used this power to place harsh restrictions on heroin and cocaine with the Harrison Tax Act of 1914.

Debates about drugs have often lumped «soft drugs» such as cannabis together with «hard drugs» like heroin and cocaine, if not by ascribing the same physiological and social effects to each, then by regarding the soft drugs as a «gateway» to hard drug use.

Credico has been suggesting on Twitter for weeks that he has used cocaine with Schneiderman.

Rockland County D.A.: Narcotics business linked to Puerto Rico BY BILL DEMAREST HAVERSTRAW — Tips from local residents fed up with open - air drug dealing in their neighborhood led to an investigation that has broken an alleged family - run cocaine ring that used the barbershop «Fine Line» as its base of operations, according to Rockland County District -LSB-...]

Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean did not back off his tweeted suggestion that Donald Trump used cocaine during an interview Tuesday on MSNBC, saying «something funny was going on» with Trump's sniffing and he should be asked if he ever had the drug habit.

Using mice, they found that cocaine induces NO to react with GAPDH so that GAPDH moves into the nucleus.

To use reconsolidation to wipe out drug memories, Lu and his team first taught rats to self - administer cocaine and heroin, so that they learnt to associate a particular environment with a drug high.

Immediately I said, «OK, I can not study schizophrenics, but I can study psychosis in patients who are coming with cocaine substance - use disorders.»

In a study under way at USP's Neuroimaging Laboratory (LIM - 21), the researchers are now seeking to correlate the cognitive profile observed in the two groups of cocaine - dependent patients with decision - making and resting - state brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

They also found that among early - onset users, the concurrent consumption of cannabis and alcohol was 50 % and 30 % more frequent, respectively, compared with late - onset users, defined as those who began using cocaine at or over the age of 18.

A lower score on executive functioning scale was associated with frequent binge drinking and drug use, cocaine in particular.

This is the first study to find associations between deficits in attention and executive functioning with frequency of binge drinking and use of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, sedatives and tranquilizers, and stimulants in the general population ages 18 and older.

The study looked at acute cocaine use with only one injection a day, which is not considered a model of addiction.

Among shelter users in Toronto, 40 per cent reported current drug problems, with marijuana, cocaine and opiates the three most frequently used substances.

The researchers acknowledge that their study was dependent on hypothetical sexual situations, not real - life circumstances, and that participants swallowed the cocaine in pill form instead of snorting or smoking it, as is more typical with street use.

When dosed with cocaine at either dose, participants were more likely to not use a condom when they had a higher chance of contracting an STI, compared to participants who weren't on cocaine.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

In a placebo - controlled within subject study, researchers from the Netherlands and Germany took 24 students (aged 19 to 27) with light to moderate cocaine use, and gave them either 300 mg of oral cocaine, or a placebo.

People living with chronic low back pain (cLBP) are more likely to use illicit drugs — including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine — compared to those without back pain, reports a study in Spine, published by Wolters Kluwer.

During the 12 years after detention, non-Hispanic white youths had 30 times the odds of cocaine use disorder compared with African Americans.

With the combined use of genetics and pharmacology, the investigators altered the production of proteins controlled by eIF2α in adult mice, essentially converting them into adolescents by making them more susceptible to cocaine - induced changes in synaptic strength and behavior.

Dr. Parsons has provided similar insights into the mechanisms through which endocannabinoids modulate the rewarding effects of opiates, alcohol, and cocaine, and he is presently extending his evaluations of this stage of the addiction cycle to include animal models of commonly occurring genetic polymorphisms that are associated with problematic drug use and dependence in humans.

The George lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of humans, rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.

a) In the subsection «Cell type - specific NMDA - R pharmacology in cocaine - induced synaptic plasticity» we now more clearly introduce the Zweifel and Engblom studies as well as the differences between them: both of which used genetic ablation of Grin1 over 1 week but showed different results with respect to DA neuron synaptic potentiation, which was due to methodological challenges with AMP - R compensation.

Though this research established significant increase of glaucoma risk for individuals with a history of cocaine use, it doesn't prove a causal relationship.

It's why nearly 30 percent of American adults have a drinking problem, and the reason why more than 22 million others using mood - altering drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants — all in a desparate attempt to somehow cope with stress.

Various conditions and medications can lead to secondary hypertension, including: Kidney problems; Adrenal gland tumors; Thyroid problems; Certain defects in blood vessels you're born with (congenital); Certain medications, such as birth control pills, cold remedies, decongestants, over-the-counter pain relievers and some prescription drugs; Illegal drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamines; Alcohol abuse or chronic alcohol use; Obstructive sleep apnea.

Houston's life ended tragically in 2012 when she accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors in her death.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

DeWitt plays Webb's loyal wife Sue who stands by him after he's betrayed by his own newspaper and wrongly discredited for reporting that Nicaraguan rebels working directly with the CIA were smuggling cocaine into the U.S. and using the profits to arm Contra militias back home.

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.

«Bind» is a floor installation composed of 116 books taken apart with pages folded in on themselves, rather like the paper a diamond dealer uses to hold stones, or the paper a cocaine dealer might use for individual wraps.

The cleared land is also used for clandestine airstrips to land small planes loaded with cocaine which is then trucked through Mexico and across the border to US consumers.:: Via Los Angeles Times

The Associated Press reports that FBI Special Agent Joseph Murphy filed an affidavit stating that Fogarty admitted that he repeatedly sold cocaine to Cook and Christ, and that he sometimes used the drug with them.

Did an employer terminate employment because of addiction to cocaine (raising a prima facie case of discrimination), or for breach of the Policy prohibiting drug use unrelated to his addiction because he had the capacity to comply with those terms (not raising a prima facie case of discrimination).

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.