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

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

that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

cover many different subjects in the course of one conversation. I have found just the opposite to be true. I can remember sitting...

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

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

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

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

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...

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

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

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...

in detail the physical environment of the clinic, office or other facility he visited. The setting for treatment of substance abu...

substance abuse among medical professionals. Discussion Hines defines...

be gay, they are unaware of some of the issues that might be impacting this particular community, and this could have a definite o...

person can keep his or her employment (SAMHSA, 2004). The good news is that there are several programs that integrate subs...

community of substance abusers who are empowered to support each other through the process (Johnson, 1993). As a result, the alco...

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

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

From this perspective, we can see...

always be an integral component to society. It can readily be argued that how impact Prohibition had upon social change was both ...