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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...

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...

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...

Policy Overview

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

An Article on Drug Addiction and Korean Teens Summarized

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

Parenting and the Effects of Substance Abuse

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

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 ...

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...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

EBP Approach to Substance Abuse Disorders

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

Drunk History and Substance Abuse Counseling

This essay pertains to "Drunk History," a TV show in which participants describe instances from history while inebriated. The writ...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

Social Conflict Theory, A Program Evaluation

This paper is an evaluation of Restoration House's New Hope for Families program, which is a community-based residential treatmen...

Teen Substance Abuse, Pediatric Health Promotion

This research paper/essay pertains to the topics of health promotions, which are designed to address the needs of teens in regards...

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Reducing Recidivism

The problems inherent in substance abuse must be addressed if recidivism is to be reduced. This eleven page paper lists ten sourc...

Abuser Characteristics

This paper first discusses the characteristics of abusers that engage in domestic violence and then discusses the role of substanc...

Abuse Cases, Elder and Child Abuse

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

Age Discrimination and Senior Citizens

of becoming old for society has imbedded the ideal that youth is where power and desire lay. In Greers article she begins with the...

Developmentally Disables Senior Citizens and Need for Services in New York State

2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...

Senior Citizens and Housing

heart attacks and strokes (Bartelmes, 2002). These conditions may also lead to slow but progressive disability (Bartelmes, 2002). ...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Depression and Senior Citizen Patients

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

Senior Citizens and a Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract

by Pennsylvania State Representatives Dombrowski, Cappabianca, Bowser, Boyes, Merry and Rudy. It was first referred on January 24...

Five Stereotypes Associated With Aging and Senior Citizens

warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...

Senior Citizens and the Polypharmacy Concept

life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...

Senior Citizens and Long Term Care

Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...