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Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

The Liza Minnelli Case

have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Media Takes a Constructionist View When Reporting on Sexual Behavior

sexual behavior that conforms with their personal desires. Obviously, when a child would be harmed, or even murdered, such tendenc...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Long Island City Community Program of Drug Prevention Proposal

drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...

Abuses of Human Rights, Imperialism, and Terrorism

took place due to the better opportunities for Muslims in the Ottoman bureaucracy (John, 2004). This may have been the first hist...

Drugs and the Risks They Represent

doctor can be more dangerous than people think. In fact, its drug abuse. And its just as illegal as taking street drugs. Whether ...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

Handicapped Individuals and the Holocaust

2006). They were seen as "a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life" (The Murder of the Handicapped, 200...

Client Interactions and Substance Abuse

the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Individual Action and Global Warming

2100, sea levels may rise by 3 feet (Schulte 34). Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology blame warmer water for the fa...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Society and the Individual

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

Pastoral Counseling

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...