He noted that 4% to 6% of children become addicted to gambling, and that it has been linked with other high-risk behaviors, including drug use.
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Their names do not appear, but the profiles list medical conditions including abortions, illegal drug use, alcoholism, depression, sexually transmitted diseases, medications and their DNA sequence.
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Mr. WILSON: Well, in many ways, you know, Dr. Fenton spoke to you and he listed reasons why African-Americans are disproportionately impacted, including poverty, city drug use and prisons.
Allegations of steroid use prompted congressional hearings and new efforts by Major League Baseball to stop drug use, including a probe led by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
Mass advertising is contributing to many other consumer addictions that imply large public-health costs, including excessive TV watching, gambling, drug use, cigarette smoking, and alcoholism.
Many suspensions have been handed out to NFL players because of the use of amphetamines, including the ADHD drug Adderall.
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About 55 tweets and retweets followed over the next hour and a quarter, including some that contained racial epithets, references to drug use and obscenities.
The Prison Service is trying a variety of counter-measures, including drug-free wings where prisoners who promise not to use drugs are given additional privileges.
The problem of performance-enhancing drug use in horse racing has received increased attention in recent years, including Congressional hearings in 2012.
In the last year Google has scored an impressive string of wins, including at the Swiss drug maker Hoffmann-La Roche, where over 80, 000 employees use the package, and at the Interior Department, where 90, 000 use it.
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Most of the time, the information was related to the student's own behavior, including drunken, drug-related, or sexually suggestive images or comments, as well as the use of profanity or discriminatory language.
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Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, who has run clinical trials on many important heart medicines but is perhaps best known for raising red flags on drug safety, including on Vioxx, now withdrawn, and Avandia, which has had its use severely limited.
Television advertisements can now name a prescription drug and its use, provided they describe the chief risks and refer consumers to further information, including a toll-free number and website.
The report says some key planks of government policy - including major drug seizures - have little or no impact, and some programmes in schools could even have increased the use of drugs.
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