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The Cocaine Addiction

In this paper containing five pages a creative essay considers the plight of a young female cocaine addict who seeks assistance in...

Cocaine Addiction and Treatment

widely used substance. Statistics from 1997 show that about 1.5 million ("New treatments," 2001, p.6) Americans had recently used...

Addressing Cocaine Addiction

This research paper focuses on a client scenario, in which the client has a cocaine addition. The topics covered include assessmen...

Cocaine's Chemistry and its Impact

Erthroxylon coca. The active ingredient was first isolated by Westerners by a man named Albert Niemann in 1860. The drug soon beca...

Cocaine's Physiological Effects

very oftentimes sadly mistaken. This study proved that the brain, after experiencing only one exposure to cocaine, is then "prime...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

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...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Drug Addiction Mock Assessment

for the oldest son), leaving little room for each child to reflect upon his or her own desires. Justin routinely rebelled against...

Effects of Cocaine

In an overview consisting of five pages cocaine is examined in terms of its physical, social, and psychological effects along with...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

The Problem of Drug Addiction

about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...

Technology as a Societal Addiction

weapons of mass destruction that are the center of world controversy today reflect that fact. These weapons do exist and they exi...

AN OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES RECRUITMENT

Focuses on the recruitment and interview process for an addiction counselor and supermarket employee....

Cocaine and Fetal Development/Article Summaries

The following paper offers summaries of six research articles: 2 each from a ProQuest database; the EBSCOhost databases and the ER...

Pregnant Women and Crack Cocaine

force between mother and fetus; if this ultimately occurs, it can cause "shock and death" (Petitti et al, 1990, p. 25) to both ind...

Crystal Meth: Effects On Teens And Adults

use as of the early 1980s and continues to be one of the most commonly abused street drugs (Methamphetamine). Results from the 20...

Workaholics: A Categorization

read "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase". Yes, our labor is indeed rewa...

Types of Addiction

comics are well-produced and very content-rich. Theyre designed for adult readers, not like the western comics which are aimed onl...

The Internet

in ways that are harmful. They may cheat on a spouse, spend so much time online in chat rooms or gaming sites that they neglect th...

The Effects of Pre-Natal Drug Use and Addiction

in one literature review, it was estimated that more than 1.4 million women of childbearing age currently use opiod-derived drugs,...

Addiction Recovery Programs - A Spiritual Rather than Religious Approach

and evolve addiction studies. Problem Statement This paragraph helps the student begin to frame the problem to be explored ove...

May's Addiction and Grace

ideas about religion or spirituality as after all, most addiction treatment is found in such areas. This psychiatrist draws on his...

Addictions and Their Cure

using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...

Comprison of Four Interventions for Substance Abuse

Mental Health Services Administration: one out of every eight people in this country currently has a significant problem with alco...

Perceptions to Drug Addiction

the argument of Levine (1978) that disease approach to addiction was not a discovery that resulted from true medical research or s...

Issues Pertaining to Addiction

that involve "chemical substances" (Juhnke and Hagedorn, 2006, p. 5). However, other clinicians are of the opinion that a broader ...

Dependence and Addiction

There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...