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Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

Steroid Abuse in Major League Baseball

2007, p. 128). After all, if 23 New York Mets players have either taken in the past or are currently taking performance-enhancing...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

CRIMINALS AND LEGAL RIGHTS

was denied (Escobedo v. Illinois, 2010). Escobedo ultimately was convicted of murder, but appealed the conviction, claiming the co...

Abuse of Women in Muslim Societies: The Cultural Contributors

society, women are often subjected to a variety of abuses, both physical and psychological. Sadly, nowhere is this form of abuse m...

Pregnancy among Central Illinois Adolescents

study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this stu...

Mormonism in America

religions in the world. This paper looks briefly at its establishment in the American West. Discussion The putative founder of Mo...

The Bluest Eye and Abuse

the abuse of a child, however the reader may not like that. This same critic indicates how it was "Her scratching the back of her...

HIV Reporting and Confidentiality Issues in Illinois

of HIV/AIDS reporting, confidentiality and partner notification in the State of Illinois using the format of the Department of Hea...

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Freight Yard

Five pages discussing reasons that Burlington Northern Santa Fe's immense freight yard near Joliet, Illinois is one for the 21st c...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Help in the Foreclosure Crisis

those attending the event, according to the release, will "receive an approved restructuring plan" (Geovanis, 2009). The event wil...

APN Role in Protecting Elderly Abuse Victims

"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...

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 ...

Case Study Kendra and Austin

This case involves a mother and her teenage son and the abuse suffered by the mother. Her drunken husband violently abused her dai...

Overview of Child Abuse

This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

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...

Relationship Between Animal Cruelty and Antisocial Behaviors

whether parent or child, often means child abuse occurs in that family."3 At least one study demonstrates that individuals "who e...

A Look at Two Mergers

the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...

Sexual Abuse in Children

these things to occur. Interestingly, many stories--not involving Priests-- that surface on the news are the ones of horrific t...

Sexual Abuse of Children in America

of abuse. In fact, it can be argued that a large percentage of children who are sexually abused become sexual predators in adulth...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

ISAT

10 be tested (Bettis, 2004). The Illinois Goals Assessment Program (IGAP) was created to "develop competency-based tests" (Bettis,...

Illinois Corruption and Commutation of Death Sentences by Gov. George Ryan

corruption in Illinois enjoyed its hey day it seems during the administration of recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifes...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

Energy Sector and Market Regulation

for Dominion Virginia Powers profit," published in the Daily Press on September 7, 2003, it is noted that deregulation of the indu...

Substance Abuse and Child Abuse

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...