Paraphernalia

The stimulant urge-impulses are seusitive to euviroumeutal cues such as retumiug home aud associated multiple situatioual stimuli (e.g., paraphernalia, friends, etc.). With continued drug availability, it is not unusual to observe repetitious cycles of bingeing with intervening crash and intermediate withdrawal phases over a period of months. It is noted that conditioned withdrawal responses are less pronounced than with opiates yet, withdrawal appears to have a phase-specific relation to the reemergence of cue-sensitive responses that deserves further research. 

Prior to routine screening of blood products in the early 1990s, the primary route of transmission of the HCV was blood transfusions, when the risk was 0.02% per unit transfused. Since then, the risk has decreased significantly (0.001% per unit transfused).13 Today, intravenous drug users utilizing contaminated paraphernalia are responsible for most HCV transmission. Other populations at risk for acquiring HCV are listed in Table 21-1. Approximately 10% of the individuals infected with HCV have no identifiable risk factors. 

Here and there I can see rubbish a rotting sack, beer bottles, cigarette butts. Beyond the bulk of the house, across the garden, is the workshop, long and low and rose-pink too, built to house presses and storerooms and binding machines, and all the paraphernalia of such an ancient trade and craft. It rained last night, and there s a smell of apple trees and earth and even, faintly, of the... 

Plots of boiling points, hunts for data, corrections, slide rules, log paper, eraser dirt, pencil shavings, and all the rest of the paraphernalia that takes the place of tea leaves and crystal spheres in the life of the scientific clairvoyant, were brought into play, he joked. 

Apparently, the Doctor did not know this and thought he was to be left alone again. This time the stretcher-bearers had left him in the lurch, with his stretcher and its paraphernalia still in the room. He was so worked up by the afternoon session that in his anger he forgot how helpless he was supposed to be. Bending down, he picked up the stretcher and the blankets and the pillow and stalked out carrying these things under his arms. 

In the present paper, attention is focussed on a particular class of ceramic objects - incensarios or paraphernalia used in the ritual burning of incense. In attempting to determine a... 

The use of contaminated needles or other injection-related paraphernalia by drug abusers has been the main cause of parenteral transmissions of HIV. 

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of hallucinogenic snuffs dates to 1500 B.C. in Mesoamerica. Use of tobacco snuffs, from which such use was modeled, however, may date to 5000 B.C. There are probably no animal examples of intranasal self-administration that served as original models for this behavior, although the iconography of snuffing pipes and other paraphernalia is replete with animal symbolism (11). Bird bones were commonly used as early snuffing... 

Sometimes a person with a drug problem will distance him- or herself from the family by seeking seclusion in a private area of the house (like a basement or a shed) in order to use drugs. In some cases people with drug problems may make this location off-limits to other family members, or may insist on time alone at specific times of the day. Loved ones may discover drug paraphernalia by accident in those areas of seclusion or in other places frequented by the person. 

Potential differences can only be measured accurately at zero current. Accordingly, when measuring a potential at an electrode, it is best to use a voltmeter with as high an internal resistance as possible. It is also advisable for the resistance of the leads and other experimental paraphernalia to be as small as possible, thereby minimizing the IR drop. 

Since ancient days, people consulted priests, shamans, or other wise men for dream interpretation and wish-fulfillment. More recently, people consult psychic channelers, crystals, UFOs, and an amazing array of New Age paraphernalia. It seems humans have always wished for material possessions and spiritual powers. What is the significance of our spe-... 

September 11 Comedian Thomas Chong, half of the duo of Cheech Chong, is sentenced to nine months in jail for selling marijuana pipes, bongs, and other drug paraphernalia. The duo had been famous for its portrayal of stoned marijuana users. 

This includes an ideal gas in a piston, weights, and other necessary paraphernalia to carry out the following reversible operations. First, the gas piston is brought into thermal contact with the Th reservoir, and the gas undergoes reversible isothermal expansion at Th (lifting weights as necessary) to withdraw heat q from this reservoir, where... 

This book differs from its ancestor in three ways. First, the amount of illustrative and exercise material has been enormously increased. Since the demand for a teaching textbook in this field far exceeds what I had previously anticipated, I have tried now to equip the new edition with the pedagogic paraphernalia appropriate to meet this need. 

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