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Aging of the World

This study uses several research studies about social workers as its core. The focus is on social workers and the elderly. Technol...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

Improving Health Outcomes in the Elderly

In a paper of five pages, the author reviews strategies to improve health outcomes by reducing barriers to health promotoin progra...

Teenagers and Drug Abuse from a Social Perspective

associated with drug abuse can indeed be quite severe. In "Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review" authors Mich...

High School Strategic Plan

the system. Solutions of course are to enlarge the building and hire more teachers, but in order to do this, the money has to be t...

Pregnant Women's Rights and Fetuses' Rights

In five pages this paper discusses the abuse of drugs in this consideration of pregnant women's rights versus the rights of the fe...

Essay on Drug Abuse

Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...

79 Year Old Woman with Multiple Diseass

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

A Review of Elderly Care Literature

2006, pp. 669-683). Based on this, the researchers found that hip fractures were greatly reduced in the women taking the supplemen...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

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...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

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...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

Elderly Sexuality: Gender Differences

way the Social Security Administration does and proclaim that anyone age sixty-two or over will be considered "elderly". It seems...

Interviewing an Older Person

is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Elderly and Attachment to Home/Place in Rural Areas

trying to improve this situation. It seems important to spend some time on this aspect of the topic in light of the fact that it d...

Aspects of Learning Among the Elderly

This research paper addresses pertinent literature on the topic of elderly learning. The author contends that further education a...

Drug Abuse and the Views of Saint Augustine, Aristotle, and Plato

In 10 pages this paper considers how these philosophers would view the contemporary problem of drug abuse. There are 7 sources ci...

Drug Use, Abuse and Treatment in a Social Interactive Approach

difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Drug Abuse, its causes and effects

they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...

Ex Drug Abuser Interview

This paper consists of five pages and features a sample of an interview with a one time abuser of drugs who discusses the life eff...

Drug Abuse of Emergency Medical Services Employees

In five pages the incidences of drug abuse among EMS and EMT employees are examined. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....