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addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

that occurred in New York, before laws were implemented to take care of these harsh conditions. What is not widely reported is the...

the child is going to avert further physical and/or emotional battering. It stands to reason that children who are forced to endu...

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

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...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...

sentence; 5. when enrolled in a NC institute of higher education 6. when working in the State for more than 14 days or a period th...

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

there is an argument among sociologists as to whether a "weak" or "strong" reading of the stance of claims-makers is more effectiv...

Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

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

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

counselor, not wanting to agitate the situation but realizing she had to uncover more information, asked whether or not Jennifers ...

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

fiction? Before examining this issue in greater detail, it should be noted that scientific research oftentimes classifies any ins...

myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...

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

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

inadequate parenting and emotional abuse? 2. What do studies suggest about the impact of emotional abuse? 3. What are the long t...

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

The excessive use of alcohol by the male member of domestic couples could be expected to place a couple at greater risk for experi...