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Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Epidemiology & STDs

associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events" (Merrill and Timmreck, 2006, p. 2...

Ecstasy And Its Effects

young masses. II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS The need for artificial stimulation has long been associated with the ...

"The Basketball Diaries" - Reaction

ability to register pain, anxiety and desire while at the same time enhances an artificial sense of contentment. As Jim becomes m...

High Performance Drugs: Social Consideration

is both famous and respected. However, it becomes difficult for the child or adolescent to understand the motivation behind such ...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Social Work Case Management

or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

The Liza Minnelli Case

have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Neo Liberal and Neo Conservative Perspectives on Child Abuse

toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

An Article on Drug Addiction and Korean Teens Summarized

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

Children Who are Physically Abused, Depression, and Suicide

(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...

Parenting and the Effects of Substance Abuse

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

Alcohol as a Drug Discussion

juice etc. This mixture of yeast and juice is left to ferment for several weeks in a container that does not allow air to enter, ...

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Substance Abuse

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Client Interactions and Substance Abuse

the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...