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Drug Addiction Mock Assessment

for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...

3 Human Services Providers Websites Assessed

wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...

Recreational Activity of Gambling

This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...

Program to Stop Smoking

helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...

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...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

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...

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" (...

Sports Gambling and the Ethical and Moral Concerns It Arouses

to throw a game. Greed is often at the crux of sports gambling. Players, even if they are doing rather well, may be lured by easy...

Children and Drug Addiction

dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Chemical Dependency Issues

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

The Deleterious Effects of Computer Gambling

are admitted sex addicts and "shopohaulics." No one would want to outlaw shopping or sex, but of course, sex and shopping are regu...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Models of Addiction

should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologica...

The Long Term Effects of Alcohol on Personality

affected by it. Young people are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol as their brains are still developing. Adolesc...

Section Addiction; the Addiction and Contrasting Treatments Using Narrative and Existential Therapy

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

Internet Gambling Should be Banned

(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...

Judy Garland's Drug Addiction During "The Wizard Of Oz"

3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how "The Wizard of Oz" was Garland's first major step toward a life of drug addic...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

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...

Addiction And Substance Abuse: Comorbidity

likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...

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...

CBT & Drug Addiction/A Case Scenario

in which he or she is most vulnerable to drug use, avoid those high-risk situations whenever possible, and use a range of behavior...

An Examination of Addiction and Recovery

provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...

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...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...