TAKEOUT meals, books on tape, mail order, even the much-abused use of the cell phone -- they're all ways to survive in a time-crunched society.
This is despite the fact that NSLs have been subject to countless scathing reports from civil-liberties groups showing they are widely abused, used in any number of cases that have nothing to do with national security, and have never been the basis to a terrorism conviction.
I believed I deserved to be abused, used and neglected.
For the far-right, the grim use of abused children for political ends reaches its nadir when it comes to Asian grooming gangs of the type that have been uncovered in Rotherham.
For the far-right, the grim use of abused children for political ends reaches its nadir when it comes to "Asian grooming gangs"—sex trafficking of underage white girls mainly by Asian men that have been uncovered in places like Rotherham.
One rationale for use of abused substances including marijuana is the self-medication hypothesis.
Repeated use of abused drugs causes persistent alterations in gene expression responsible for the long-term behavioral and structural changes.
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between navigational strategies and the use of abused substances in a sample of healthy young adults.
It was further shown that the response learners had greater use of abused substances than spatial learners, including double the lifetime alcohol consumption, a greater number of cigarettes smoked and a greater lifetime use of cannabis.
Since response learners show increased activity and gray matter in the caudate nucleus of the striatum, which is a brain area involved in addiction, we hypothesized that response learners would have a greater use of abused substances than spatial learners.
Similar findings were observed in a cohort study of Australian sexually abused children; estimates of the use of mental health services were nearly four times higher among the abused group, compared to population controls [ 34].
