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The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

Unexpected Societal Substance Abuse

substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...

Senior Citizen Abuse Screening

well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...

Service Provider Interactions

in detail the physical environment of the clinic, office or other facility he visited. The setting for treatment of substance abu...

Substance Abuse, The Role of Outpatient Clinics

to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...

Senior Citizens and Financial Abuse

view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...

Arkansas and California Abuse Reporting

the child is going to avert further physical and/or emotional battering. It stands to reason that children who are forced to endu...

Legally Protecting Animals in Arizona

6 felony. Signed by former Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 4, 1999, the law gave animal protection agencies the legal teeth it need...

Las Vegas' Asian Community and Types of Spousal Abuse

In thirty pages this paper discusses physical, sexual, and verbal spousal abuse in America and then considers its impact upon Las ...

Intimate Relationships and Psychological Abuse

In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...

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...

Crisis Services For Spousal Abuse Victims In San Antonio, Texas

Spousal abuse -- which is defined as "a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, and psychological...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

Article Review on Domestic Violence

years, but it is difficult due to the different methodologies employed. What seems to be the case is that it is not easy to know h...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

The Navajo Peacemaking Process in Domestic Abuse

penalties for the abuse. In too many cases involving traditional native peoples, however, this also means that the victim is sepa...

Analysis of a Biography: Silent Victim Running Free by Lisa Brassard Mayer

setting so that it, too, reveals the contours of life instead of appearing as flat as the printed page. Lisa Brassard Mayer was n...

Clerical and Non-Clerical Sexual Abusers Annotated Bibliography

more male victims than non-clerical abusers. The fact that clerics had a lower offense rate in general suggests to the authors tha...

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...

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

Elder Abuse: What It Is, Why It Occurs and How to Prevent It

or she does)" (Elder abuse and neglect, 2007). Abuse may also take the form of financial exploitation, when the caregiver steals f...

The Effects of Abuse on Childhood Development

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Piaget's stages of childhood development. The impact of neglect and abuse upon such ...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

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...

Pregnant Adolescent Minorities and the Treatment and Prevention of Substance Abuse

think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...