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Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

HB326, A Louisiana Bill

issues that contraindicate the effectiveness and utility of this legislation, as passage of HB326 facilitates the delivery of emer...

Counseling Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment

population, with the largest demographic designation being individuals of mixed race, as they comprise 6 percent of the population...

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...

Substance Abuse in Older Populations

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

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...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Domestic Violence Yesterday and Today

Spousal violence has a history that stretches back to mankinds earliest chapters on earth. This...

Implications of Family Abuse for Victims and Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer discusses abuse in a family situation, its origins, prevalence and ramifications. The writer ...

MEDIATION FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

were expected to endure within the confines of matrimony is now considered nothing short of abuse. That victims of domestic viole...

The Family System in Society

families, something unheard of in the past. Also, the dual career couple is the primary family working pattern today (Elloy & Flyn...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Early Language Development In Children With Down Syndrome

the difficulties in the communication, language and speech skills of the people with Down syndrome is not yet properly known. In ...

Dual Relationship Challenges Between Client And Professional

sometimes an individuals perceived reality can hinder his or her ability to see things as they truly are, which then requires the ...

Church Committee & Influence of Watergate

on Nixons opponents, as Nixon was convinced that leaks to the press directly threatened the effectiveness of his administration...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and the Power Concept

states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...