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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

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...

Policy Overview

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

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...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Behavior and the Effects of Social Influence

want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...

Substance Abuse Rehab Program Termination

In five pages this paper examines the termination of a rehabilitation for substance abuse program from the perspective of a social...

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbidity

In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...

Families and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper examines how families are affected by substance abuse in a comparative analysis of rates in the United St...

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...

Adolescents and Substance Abuse

In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...

Crime, Alcohol, and Drugs

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

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...

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...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Substance Abuse

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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