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Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

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,...

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...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Christianity and Storms

In three pages this paper discusses the significance of storms in a consideration of how they represent personal life's problems a...

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...

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, ...

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...

Punishing Abuse

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

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...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

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...

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...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

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 ...

Middle Ages, Freedom of Thought, and Dogma

One of the quests that sprung from employing the notion of feudalism was to create the vassal/lord union as a means by which to es...

Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocation Training Integration

person can keep his or her employment (SAMHSA, 2004). The good news is that there are several programs that integrate subs...

Issue of Elder Abuse and Neglect

in both domestic environments, i.e., private residences, and in institutions, i.e., nursing homes (Jogerst et al, 2003). However, ...

Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

Antwone Fisher's 'Finding Fish'

to protest against a society that had not provided them with the same privileges as their white counterparts. While Antwone was yo...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurton and Spousal Abuse

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

Literature and Domestic Abuse

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

Freud, Cooley, Mead, Friendship, and Brooklyn, New York's Crown Heights Community

people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Symbolism Associated with the Whale

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

Homosexuality and Counseling for Substance Abuse

be gay, they are unaware of some of the issues that might be impacting this particular community, and this could have a definite o...