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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...

Oral Health is Linked to Overall Health

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

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

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

Health Promotion

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Descartes vs. Russon

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

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

REBT/Treatment for Alcoholism

ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...

Health in Zimbabwe

of basic commodities" (Zimbabwe: Introduction, 2011). Consequently, the Government of National Unity (GNU), which was establish...

Substance Abuse in Older Populations

processes, and appropriate diagnosing, as well as proposing specific interventions that can be used and preventative strategies fo...

Home Health Care Nursing

This paper emphasizes the importance of home health care by outlining typical day in the life of a home health care provider. The...

Threats Which May Influence Whether The Objectives Of The Healthy People 2020 Program Are Achieved In Calumet

City, Illinois Improving the health of a nation is a difficult task. Different areas have different problems, and the macro envir...

Getting Addicts into Treatment

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

Signifiers of Health in Developing Children

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at children's health. Psychosocial health signifiers are examined in a variety of conte...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

Masturbation and Sexual Health - Exploring the Cultural Perceptions

unspoken assumption that masturbation is somehow morally wrong, or even detrimental. In other words, the alternative theories are ...

Principles for Ensuring Health and Safety in a Working Environment

with different elements; together they give a good overview. The first principle is that all workers have rights, this principle...

Pressyres Teenagers Face

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

Health Histories and Self-Critiques - A Sample

the cancer come for me at last". - Past History Mr. Skuulovich reported a lifelong history of combatting illness and diseases, ...

Family Homelessness and the Impact on Health and Healthcare Provision

as an increased occurrence in low income families it has also been noted that members of minority populations are also over repres...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...