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This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

in the form of crack, the onset is even quicker (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Cocaine creates a sense of well being and t...

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

associated with the treatment of malaria. As a substance, how does quinine chemically react? Quinine reacts in different ways at d...

pain and presumably athletes take it for the same reason. The strain on their joints from professional sports is tremendous, and g...

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

This 14 page paper answers four questions set by the student examining different areas of project management. The first answer def...

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...

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

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

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

the face of her addiction (Simon, 1994). No matter what he does its wrong "because of Alices defensiveness, which perceives concer...

This research paper/essay pertains to the topics of health promotions, which are designed to address the needs of teens in regards...

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

This paper pertains to therapies designed to aid substance abusers. Literature is surveyed and the writer concludes by offering an...

(Bromwell, n.d.). This approach would also try to have the patient develop different patterns of thinking (Bromwell, n.d.). For ex...

Drug abuse, regardless of the type of drug, has a very negative effect on the body and brain of the user and abuser. Chemicals fro...