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Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Sam Case Study

From this perspective, we can see...

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...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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

Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

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...

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...

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...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Substance Abuse

In five pages this paper examines jimson weed indulgence and lotus eating in this consideration of how substance abuse is represen...

Crime, Alcohol, and Drugs

In twenty pages crime and the relationships both genetic and environmental that exist between its commission and abusing substance...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

Juvenile Development and the Negative Effects of TV Violence

young children, although incontestable, is one of the prominent societal concerns of the time. Such graphical violence has been d...

Connection Between the Abuse of Substances and Domestic Violence

violence is something thought of as being proliferated against women, but it can occur against men in both homosexual and heterose...

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...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Substance Abuse

many different problems, including attention-deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression and a number of ...

Senior Citizens and Substance Abuse

the prevalence of substance abuse among the elderly as it often goes unrecognized (Irons and Rosen, 2002). However, alcoholism do...

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...

How to Serve a Client with Multiple Physical and Mental Health Issues

combination of these factors can lead to an increase rate of CNS deterioration which in turn can lead to increased neurological si...

Substance Abuse and a Supervision Personal Theory

identifies five basic qualities of effective supervision: 1. Formal structure which is...

Substance Abuse Counseling and Clinical Supervision

addictions supervision" (Juhnke and Culbreth, 2002). Clinical supervision in the addictions arena is very different than clinica...

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...

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...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...