interrupter

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Scott strengthened an existing program that deploys violence interrupters in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times

The handful of experts who have worked directly with the drug cast it as a powerful addiction interrupter — one that can quell the excruciating symptoms of opioid withdrawal and tame the cravings to use again.

From New York Times

Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.

From Science Daily

“If all the violence interrupter is doing is canvassing the neighborhood three times a week, that’s not going to be enough. There needs to be more of a person-specific strategy,” Mr. Muhammad told The Times.

From Washington Times

It plans to train more community violence interrupters — those who are trained in conflict resolution and counseling and are deployed throughout the community and at events — and enroll more families to receive such counseling.

From Seattle Times