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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Drug Addiction and Psychological Testing

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

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...

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...

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...

Multicultural Issues and Child Abuse Intervention

trying to interact in a world which differs culturally from the one with which they are accustomed. Even when that child is place...

U.S. Substance Uses and Abuses Past and Present

always be an integral component to society. It can readily be argued that how impact Prohibition had upon social change was both ...

Substance Abuse and Burlington Northern Railroad

because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...

Forgiveness Therapy

Forgiveness therapy is relatively new as an intervention for treating emotionally abused women. The essay provides a summary of a ...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Users of Drugs and Alcohol and Quitting Smoking

et al, 2005). However, smokers are not limited in their addition, those who are addicted to other substances, such as alcohol. For...

Getting Addicts into Treatment

This essay explains and discusses motivational interviewing and crisis intervention as approaches to persuade substance abusers to...

Sexual Abuse as a Cause of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

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, 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...

Service Provider Interactions

in detail the physical environment of the clinic, office or other facility he visited. The setting for treatment of substance abu...

Unexpected Societal Substance Abuse

substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...

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...

REBT and Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous' Twelve Steps Programs

community of substance abusers who are empowered to support each other through the process (Johnson, 1993). As a result, the alco...

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...

Pregnant Adolescent Minorities and the Treatment and Prevention of Substance Abuse

think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...

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...

Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Programs

conclusions reached by these research teams. The point of this investigation is to try to discern patterns in the literature that ...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

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...