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Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

Orem, Mid-range & Grand Theories

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

A Look at Quinine

associated with the treatment of malaria. As a substance, how does quinine chemically react? Quinine reacts in different ways at d...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

Grand Illusion of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

Babies Born to Cocaine Abusing Mothers

in the form of crack, the onset is even quicker (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Cocaine creates a sense of well being and t...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Troubled Teens: SUDs and DBDs in Adolescent Populations

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

Pharmaceutical Joint Ventures in India

November 1992. The cost was just over $10 million, equally split between the two companies. At that time, Eli Lilly was one of the...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

A Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...

Substance Abuse and Emile Durkheim's Social Theories

a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Substance Abuse Agency and Management Theory

has been stable at about 12 percent of the total population for decades, but it is now growing through immigration. The fastest-g...

Hispanics, Black, Substance Abuse, and Multicultural Counseling

of African American counseling psychologists. 6. Barriers to access to mental health services. C. Latinos/Hispanic Americans 1. De...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

and the offering of support through interpreters, mental health assistance, and other forms of approach. Ethnic Divisions As a...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Nicholas A. Cummings and Janet L. Cummings' The First Session with Substance Abusers

their families insist that there is a problem. The abusers rarely accept the fact that they have a problem. In light of this we fi...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

Perspective, 2002). These substances can include alcohol, sedatives, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, c...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...

Children and the Impact of Substance Abuse

children of alcoholics are more likely to experiment with alcohol at earlier ages than other children (Vail-Smith and Knight, 1994...

Counseling and Treatment for Substance Abuse

with medications which offer help in suppressing the craving and withdrawal symptoms associated with blocking the effects of the d...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...