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then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...
the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...
not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...
ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...
want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...
person can keep his or her employment (SAMHSA, 2004). The good news is that there are several programs that integrate subs...
be gay, they are unaware of some of the issues that might be impacting this particular community, and this could have a definite o...
to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...
in detail the physical environment of the clinic, office or other facility he visited. The setting for treatment of substance abu...
substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...
think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...
measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...
children of alcoholics are more likely to experiment with alcohol at earlier ages than other children (Vail-Smith and Knight, 1994...
ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...
with medications which offer help in suppressing the craving and withdrawal symptoms associated with blocking the effects of the d...
a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...
would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...
has been stable at about 12 percent of the total population for decades, but it is now growing through immigration. The fastest-g...
community of substance abusers who are empowered to support each other through the process (Johnson, 1993). As a result, the alco...
Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...
From this perspective, we can see...
of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...
always be an integral component to society. It can readily be argued that how impact Prohibition had upon social change was both ...
because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...
of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...
sometimes an individuals perceived reality can hinder his or her ability to see things as they truly are, which then requires the ...
stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...