Essays 961 - 990
For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...
important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
population, with the largest demographic designation being individuals of mixed race, as they comprise 6 percent of the population...
processes, and appropriate diagnosing, as well as proposing specific interventions that can be used and preventative strategies fo...
any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...
fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...
impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...
ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...
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...
stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...
penalties for the abuse. In too many cases involving traditional native peoples, however, this also means that the victim is sepa...
only be achieved when the contracting parties could not take advantage of one another. In cases of domestic violence, however, th...
difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...
or she does)" (Elder abuse and neglect, 2007). Abuse may also take the form of financial exploitation, when the caregiver steals f...
to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...
Spousal abuse -- which is defined as "a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, and psychological...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...
setting so that it, too, reveals the contours of life instead of appearing as flat as the printed page. Lisa Brassard Mayer was n...
more male victims than non-clerical abusers. The fact that clerics had a lower offense rate in general suggests to the authors tha...
they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...
years, but it is difficult due to the different methodologies employed. What seems to be the case is that it is not easy to know h...
In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...
often likely to downplay the violence they are experiencing, even to doctors and health professionals (Dickson, 2004). It ...
for this special group with the intervention of technological advancement in the school setting. Current generations of exception...
is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...
and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...
Spousal violence has a history that stretches back to mankinds earliest chapters on earth. This...
In a paper of five pages, the writer discusses abuse in a family situation, its origins, prevalence and ramifications. The writer ...