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Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...

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...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Client Interactions and Substance Abuse

the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

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...

Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Demography Of Aging: Impact Upon Life, Job And Society

both generations; their lives by having to virtually give up themselves and their interests, passions or aspirations just to have ...

The Social Problem of Substance Abuse

of the overall problem of substance abuse to inform potential methods for change, it is necessary to consider both the driving and...

CAGE Questionnaire

The questionnaire can be used in a written form or in web-based programming, which allows for the quick scoring of the test and al...

Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”

men are following a "preset plan" in their search for evidence and are, therefore, convinced at the end of the play that they have...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AGENCY

This 10-page paper focuses on the development and running of a substance abuse agency in upstate New York. Topics include organiza...

Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Programs

conclusions reached by these research teams. The point of this investigation is to try to discern patterns in the literature that ...

Article Critique/Male v. Female Substance Abuse Patterns

A 4 page article critique of a criminal justice study of juvenile behavior in regards to substance abuse pattern. No additional so...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Factors That Affect Personality Development

of development to explain personality development (Laberge, 2006). One of the things Erikson said was that a child who was unable ...

Children: To Spank Or Not To Spank

The main contention resides with the fine line that separates harmless yet effective swats with an open palm and heavy-handed stri...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Children And Obesity

for one full of simple sugars, worthless carbohydrates and empty calories, a cycle perpetuated by parents who fail to provide thei...

Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...