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Chemical Dependency Assessment

In eleven pages this research paper examines how assisting a patient that has a problem with chemical dependency is assessed with ...

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...

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

HB326, A Louisiana Bill

issues that contraindicate the effectiveness and utility of this legislation, as passage of HB326 facilitates the delivery of emer...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Social Conflict Theory, A Program Evaluation

This paper is an evaluation of Restoration House's New Hope for Families program, which is a community-based residential treatmen...

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 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...

Critique of a Journal Article on Ethnic Disparities Regarding Treatment of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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

Cases Regarding Substance Abuse Outpatient and Rehabilitation Centers

paper will attempt to examine the problem surrounding the construction of these treatment centers and how zoning has sometimes pro...

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...

Alcoholism in the Film “When a Man Loves a Woman”

the face of her addiction (Simon, 1994). No matter what he does its wrong "because of Alices defensiveness, which perceives concer...

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...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Treatment and Evaluation Methods

In five pages these student submitted fictitious case studies examines how to evaluate treatment methods in clinical environments ...

Drug Addiction and Psychological Testing

In twelve pages this paper discusses psychological testing and its effects upon substance abuse in terms of diagnosis, prevention ...

Poverty, African Americans, and Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Substance Abuse, The Role of Outpatient Clinics

to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...

Substance Abuse and Schizophrenia Dual Diagnosis

In six pages this paper examines the counseling and therapeutic challenges of dual diagnosis particularly as it relates to mental ...

Substance Abuse and the Theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud

abuse is. Theories of Sigmund Freud When Sigmund Freud first introduced his theories of the subconscious during the late...

Dependence and Addiction

There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...

Women and Using Drugs

Can convergence theory be used to discuss the increase in the use of substances among women? The writer of this paper does that. T...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

Prisons and Drug Abuse

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

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...

Adolescent Depression : Review Of Articles

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...