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Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Pressyres Teenagers Face

is rampant and the increasing rise in cyber-bullying has led too many adolescents to attempting suicide with many succeeding. Soci...

Pharmaceutical Joint Ventures in India

November 1992. The cost was just over $10 million, equally split between the two companies. At that time, Eli Lilly was one of the...

Troubled Teens: SUDs and DBDs in Adolescent Populations

226) and occurs in as much as 26 percent of the adolescent population, and include alcohol, tobacco and illegal substance use. Su...

Getting Addicts into Treatment

This essay explains and discusses motivational interviewing and crisis intervention as approaches to persuade substance abusers to...

An Essay on Chocolate

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the topic of chocolate and different perspectives on the substance. The author u...

Addiction Ethcial Treatment

In this paper, the writer reflects on the ethical issues associated with treating substance abusers and addiction. The paper cites...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

What Causes Birth Defects

A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects/congenital abnormalities. It could also related to the pregnant woman bein...

Relationships & Effective Rehab: Substance Abusers

This paper pertains to therapies designed to aid substance abusers. Literature is surveyed and the writer concludes by offering an...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

Nicholas A. Cummings and Janet L. Cummings' The First Session with Substance Abusers

their families insist that there is a problem. The abusers rarely accept the fact that they have a problem. In light of this we fi...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Ideas Concept of John Locke

being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

1914 Commissioning of The Bryce Report

In five pages this paper argues that the Bryce Report about German troop mistreatment after the invasion of Belgium was little mor...

Overview of the Crack Babies Problem

why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...

Implications of New Dual Diagnosis Terminology

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

Psychological or Physical Origins of Substance Dependence

However, while a considerable amount of research points to the fact that depression or anxiety problems tend to cause alcoholism, ...

UK and Occupational Asthma

(Haz-Map, 2003). There are two general categories that cause occupational asthma: 1. Low-molecular weight compounds, which are c...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

Fundamental Concepts Within Financial Accounting

that revenues are recognized at the time goods are sold and/or services are rendered. Materiality, or the materiality prin...

The Dangers of Steroid Use

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

A Look at Quinine

associated with the treatment of malaria. As a substance, how does quinine chemically react? Quinine reacts in different ways at d...

Babies Born to Cocaine Abusing Mothers

in the form of crack, the onset is even quicker (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Cocaine creates a sense of well being and t...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...

Grand Illusion of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...