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was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...
media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
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...
many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...
that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...
the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...
to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...
the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...
(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...
at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...
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...
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...
Perspective, 2002). These substances can include alcohol, sedatives, amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, c...
would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...
a biological entity" (Coser, 1977, p. 129). These factors which are external to the individual outlast individuals who die over ti...
has been stable at about 12 percent of the total population for decades, but it is now growing through immigration. The fastest-g...
2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...
This 10-page paper focuses on the development and running of a substance abuse agency in upstate New York. Topics include organiza...
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...
measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...
think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...
community of substance abusers who are empowered to support each other through the process (Johnson, 1993). As a result, the alco...