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for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...
wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...
This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...
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...
helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...
lines of demarcation shaped by race, socioeconomic status, gender, or age. It was at it height in the late 1970s. In fact, 1979...
alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...
crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
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...
dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...
(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...
the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...
are admitted sex addicts and "shopohaulics." No one would want to outlaw shopping or sex, but of course, sex and shopping are regu...
addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...
should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologica...
affected by it. Young people are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol as their brains are still developing. Adolesc...
for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...
(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...
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...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...
specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...
stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...
likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
in which he or she is most vulnerable to drug use, avoid those high-risk situations whenever possible, and use a range of behavior...
provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...
deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...
a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...