YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Senior Citizens and Substance Abuse
Essays 211 - 240
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...
conclusions reached by these research teams. The point of this investigation is to try to discern patterns in the literature that ...
A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...
This 10-page paper focuses on the development and running of a substance abuse agency in upstate New York. Topics include organiza...
specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...
at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...
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...
person can keep his or her employment (SAMHSA, 2004). The good news is that there are several programs that integrate subs...
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 Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...
From this perspective, we can see...
Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...
has been stable at about 12 percent of the total population for decades, but it is now growing through immigration. The fastest-g...
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 ...
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...
community of substance abusers who are empowered to support each other through the process (Johnson, 1993). As a result, the alco...
was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...
want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...
substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...
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...
be gay, they are unaware of some of the issues that might be impacting this particular community, and this could have a definite o...
the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...