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Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

Twelve Step Prison Program in California

In five pages California's state addiction treatment program is examined with the overall plan included but concentrates on the tw...

Internet Addiction Disorder

addiction, including salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict and relapse" (Griffiths, 2001, p. 333). Intern...

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...

Juveniles and Marijuana Addiction

This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

Addressing Cocaine Addiction

This research paper focuses on a client scenario, in which the client has a cocaine addition. The topics covered include assessmen...

Alcoholism, Soldiers' Stories of Addiction

This paper discusses the personal narratives of soldiers and indicates the parts of these narratives that are applicable to Procha...

Break Addiction to Tobacco

This paper continues on in the quit smoking program in a mental health hospital. The paper reports a simple revenue and expense bu...

Addiction of Compulsive Shopping

In five pages a psychological perspective is employed in this examination of compulsive shopping that includes symptoms and a shop...

Society and Gambling Addiction

In twelve pages this paper examines the problem of gambling from a sociological perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibli...

Addiction to the Internet

many therapists as well, are labeling acts of free will as diseases or disorders, in looking at the addiction paradigm, if accepte...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

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

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Addiction And Substance Abuse: Comorbidity

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

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

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

Recovery from Addiction and Inner Child Therapy

In seven pages this paper examines a woman's recovery from anorexia and alcoholism and also considers inner child concepts. Five ...

Pregnancy and Addiction

In seven pages this paper examines how the U.S. government can resolve the complex issue of pregnant addicts in a theoretical cons...

Addiction and Marijuana

g of cannabis, and up to 2-3 mgs can induce pleasurable effects for the occasional marijuana user (Hall and Solowij, 1998, p. 1611...

Dementia Patients and Sexual Addiction

In three pages this paper discusses dementia in elderly patients and how dementia can result in this consideration of etiology and...

Cocaine Addiction and Treatment

widely used substance. Statistics from 1997 show that about 1.5 million ("New treatments," 2001, p.6) Americans had recently used...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Humor Perceptions and Jokes

often find these humorous. They are flexible and can be changed to meet the users own development, with an ability to create jokes...

Body Image Perceptions and Western Society

is essentially a rejection of the traditional values and argues for an "authority of our own experiences" (Bordo, 1993, 283). In p...

Reading and Visual Perception

it when it appears on the next page or even in the next paragraph, sometimes reading the same line twice, skipping over punctuatio...

Social Perceptions of Disabled Persons and the Effects of Industrial Capitalism

see that there is little differentiation made between those who are ill, too old or too young to work and the disabled. The Poor...

Responsibility and Fate According to Greek Perceptions

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

Communication and Self Perception

this particular look at loneliness, much does have to do with the fact that individuals who are lonely have poor self perceptions....