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Drug Addiction Treatment Through Developmental Psychology

In twelve pages this paper examines how developmental psychology has proven effective in drug addiction treatment therapy. Ten so...

Heroin Addiction Treatment and the Impact of Developmental Psychology

lines of demarcation shaped by race, socioeconomic status, gender, or age. It was at it height in the late 1970s. In fact, 1979...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

The Problem of Drug Addiction

about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

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...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Article Synopsis; L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology

social as well as individual. The to important elements in terms of modern though are the "zone of proximal development" which is...

Industrial Organizational Psychology

1921, James Cattell founded the Psychological Corporation for the purpose of advancing psychology and promoting its value in indus...

Issues in Psychology

This essay offers five questions with answers. Topics include using behavior modification to change one's own behavior, developmen...

The Ethics of Coerced Treatment for Addiction

crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...

Teen Addiction and Counseling

In eight pages adolescents addicted to alcohol and drugs are examined from a counseling perspective in which addiction is defined ...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

The Effects of Pre-Natal Drug Use and Addiction

in one literature review, it was estimated that more than 1.4 million women of childbearing age currently use opiod-derived drugs,...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

Comprison of Four Interventions for Substance Abuse

Mental Health Services Administration: one out of every eight people in this country currently has a significant problem with alco...

Perceptions to Drug Addiction

the argument of Levine (1978) that disease approach to addiction was not a discovery that resulted from true medical research or s...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Developmental Psychology: Theories

who is considered one of the ten leading educators in American history for setting a significant precedence with regard to human b...

Classrooms and Developmental Psychology Applications

stage (Berk, 2001). The anal stage is at one to three years and the phallic stage is from three to six years; latency is from si...

Overview of Developmental Psychology

From two to seven months, the infant makes such rapid growth that it affects not only his own behavior but that of the caregiver. ...

Drugs, Zero Tolerance and City Ice and Cold Storage

The issue of drug use and abuse at City Ice and Cold Storage is not always an easy situation to manage; however, regardless of rec...

Drug and Alcohol Addiction

challenge easily, but it is not so much if a drugs can challenge easily it matters if a drug is taken in a certain way to present ...

Prison System and Drug Programs

In ten pages prison systems and drug use are examined in a discussion of penal system drug addiction program implementation. Four...

Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...

Cogntive and Developmental Psychology

This paper has several sections beginning with an explanation two subfields-cognitive psychology and developmental psychology. The...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...