YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly and Substance Abuse
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as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...
not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...
then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
the prevalence of substance abuse among the elderly as it often goes unrecognized (Irons and Rosen, 2002). However, alcoholism do...
the negative environmental effects that the child of the suburbs does not have to face, even though both may be facing life with a...
In five pages this quantitative research proposal regarding HIV and substance abuse treatment relies upon the statement variable '...
In many circumstances, the punitive nature of those dealing with addicts of all types has changed toward an awareness that there a...
with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...
that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...
research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...
Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...
This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...
There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...
Most programs intended to stop teenagers from using and abusing substances fail because the teenager does not want to be there and...
be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the problems connected with adult children caring for their elderly parents by disc...
In twenty pages a research proposal is presented in which the correlation between substance abuse in adolescents and being sexuall...
In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...
even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...
When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...
self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...
was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...
This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...
The problems inherent in substance abuse must be addressed if recidivism is to be reduced. This eleven page paper lists ten sourc...