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This result highlights what many would call the substitution effect : when people substitute one drug for another, according to the substitution effect, people who have become dependent on prescribed opioids and lose convenient access to them may substitute with heroin. However, illicit heroin is often of unknown quality and purity... so it can increase risk of accidental overdose and poisoning. – Sheila Vakharia	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's certainly concerning. I think that it tracks very closely with the increased availability of illicit synthetic opioids that are coming into the Christopher Jones. – Christopher Jones	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The deployment supports the international campaign to address North Korea's illicit trade and associated networks. – Marise Payne	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Australia is to send a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Japan to contribute to the enforcement of United Nations Security Council resolutions in our region, the deployment supports the international campaign to address North Korea's illicit trade and associated networks. – Marise Payne	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
How do you stop illegal supplies of illicit drugs ? i ’m not sure we have many good answers to that right now. – Michael Betz	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Iran's destructive and destabilizing role in the Middle East goes far beyond its illicit missile launches. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq to Lebanon, Iran's support for terrorism continues unabated. – Nikki Haley	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the OAS, we announced that if these intrusive, arbitrary, illicit, misdirected and rude actions were to persist against the sovereignty of our country, we would immediately proceed to denounce the letter of OAS and to initiate the definite withdrawal of Venezuela form this regional organization. – Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Criminals pocket between $7 and $8 billion in illicit proceeds. We simply have to do better. – Ralph Goodale	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Yuma became the ‘proof of concept’ that America can protect and control its border when the proper mix of resources are placed almost instantaneously, by 2008, Yuma Sector arrests of illicit border crossers and traffickers had dwindled from over 138,000 to 8,363. – Ronald Colburn	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Today, if you see bitcoins transacting, you almost assume they're from someone who wants to be off the grid, or they're proceeds from illicit transactions. – Thomas Brown	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The regime is notoriously deceitful in its financial transactions in order to continue its illicit weapons programs and other destabilizing activities. – Adam Szubin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is a very great victory for transparency and, despite the best efforts of the Obama administration and the Clinton camp, it looks like we might finally get some answers under oath about the Clintons' illicit email system. – Tom Fitton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
From a virtually non-existent domestic market, the revolution and its aftermath paved the way for a large illicit arms trade to emerge, many of the players in this new market began to use new technologies to hawk their wares. Online sales via social media platforms are one of the tools currently being used for this purpose. – The ARES study	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The profit derived by the Islamists from the illicit trade in antiquities and archaeological treasures is estimated at U.S. $150-200 million per year. – Ambassador Vitaly Churkin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we don't want it in the game then we have to have penalties, if you're prepared to put up with it... then why worry about the illicit tests at all and just focus on the performance enhancing tests. – Collingwood President Eddie McGuire	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorize interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia. – The Australian navy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A tourist attraction wherever it anchors, the ship served as the perfect cover for traffickers as it hopscotched across the Atlantic Ocean and back carrying its illicit cargo. – Bridget Brennan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Issuing the first BitLicense is an important milestone in the long-term development of the virtual currency industry, putting in place rules of the road that help protect consumers from loss or theft and root out illicit activity is vital to building trust in this new financial technology. – Anthony Albanese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have never possessed or traded on material, nonpublic information obtained through illicit or unlawful means, nor have I ever directed anyone working for me to obtain or to trade on such information. – David Amaryan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The alleged crimes are illicit association, bribery as well as a special instance of fraud related to her links with ... customs fraud. – Francisco Sandoval	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The alleged crimes are illicit association, bribery as well as a special instance of fraud related to her links with... customs fraud. – Francisco Sandoval	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s very hard to put the onus on parents to bring up their concerns to the pediatrician or family practice physician, this is why we recommend doing regular screenings. There are developmental screenings pediatricians can do with parents to try to illicit if this child is where he or she should be, development-wise. – Roula Choueiri	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions( PMD) - the tools that go into building a bomb but don't emit radioactivity. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've gotten some reassurance about how difficult it is for them to effectively conceal what we know to have been their illicit nuclear weapons developments there. – Chris Coons	Found on CNN 8 years ago

This result highlights what many would call the substitution effect : when people substitute one drug for another, according to the substitution effect, people who have become dependent on prescribed opioids and lose convenient access to them may substitute with heroin. However, illicit heroin is often of unknown quality and purity... so it can increase risk of accidental overdose and poisoning.

– Sheila Vakharia

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's certainly concerning. I think that it tracks very closely with the increased availability of illicit synthetic opioids that are coming into the Christopher Jones.

– Christopher Jones

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The deployment supports the international campaign to address North Korea's illicit trade and associated networks.

– Marise Payne

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Australia is to send a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Japan to contribute to the enforcement of United Nations Security Council resolutions in our region, the deployment supports the international campaign to address North Korea's illicit trade and associated networks.

– Marise Payne

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

How do you stop illegal supplies of illicit drugs ? i ’m not sure we have many good answers to that right now.

– Michael Betz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Iran's destructive and destabilizing role in the Middle East goes far beyond its illicit missile launches. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq to Lebanon, Iran's support for terrorism continues unabated.

– Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the OAS, we announced that if these intrusive, arbitrary, illicit, misdirected and rude actions were to persist against the sovereignty of our country, we would immediately proceed to denounce the letter of OAS and to initiate the definite withdrawal of Venezuela form this regional organization.

– Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Criminals pocket between $7 and $8 billion in illicit proceeds. We simply have to do better.

– Ralph Goodale

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Yuma became the ‘proof of concept’ that America can protect and control its border when the proper mix of resources are placed almost instantaneously, by 2008, Yuma Sector arrests of illicit border crossers and traffickers had dwindled from over 138,000 to 8,363.

– Ronald Colburn

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Today, if you see bitcoins transacting, you almost assume they're from someone who wants to be off the grid, or they're proceeds from illicit transactions.

– Thomas Brown

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The regime is notoriously deceitful in its financial transactions in order to continue its illicit weapons programs and other destabilizing activities.

– Adam Szubin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is a very great victory for transparency and, despite the best efforts of the Obama administration and the Clinton camp, it looks like we might finally get some answers under oath about the Clintons' illicit email system.

– Tom Fitton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From a virtually non-existent domestic market, the revolution and its aftermath paved the way for a large illicit arms trade to emerge, many of the players in this new market began to use new technologies to hawk their wares. Online sales via social media platforms are one of the tools currently being used for this purpose.

– The ARES study

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The profit derived by the Islamists from the illicit trade in antiquities and archaeological treasures is estimated at U.S. $150-200 million per year.

– Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we don't want it in the game then we have to have penalties, if you're prepared to put up with it... then why worry about the illicit tests at all and just focus on the performance enhancing tests.

– Collingwood President Eddie McGuire

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorize interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia.

– The Australian navy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A tourist attraction wherever it anchors, the ship served as the perfect cover for traffickers as it hopscotched across the Atlantic Ocean and back carrying its illicit cargo.

– Bridget Brennan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Issuing the first BitLicense is an important milestone in the long-term development of the virtual currency industry, putting in place rules of the road that help protect consumers from loss or theft and root out illicit activity is vital to building trust in this new financial technology.

– Anthony Albanese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have never possessed or traded on material, nonpublic information obtained through illicit or unlawful means, nor have I ever directed anyone working for me to obtain or to trade on such information.

– David Amaryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The alleged crimes are illicit association, bribery as well as a special instance of fraud related to her links with ... customs fraud.

– Francisco Sandoval

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The alleged crimes are illicit association, bribery as well as a special instance of fraud related to her links with... customs fraud.

– Francisco Sandoval

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s very hard to put the onus on parents to bring up their concerns to the pediatrician or family practice physician, this is why we recommend doing regular screenings. There are developmental screenings pediatricians can do with parents to try to illicit if this child is where he or she should be, development-wise.

– Roula Choueiri

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions( PMD) - the tools that go into building a bomb but don't emit radioactivity.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I've gotten some reassurance about how difficult it is for them to effectively conceal what we know to have been their illicit nuclear weapons developments there.

– Chris Coons

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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