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Alcoholism in the Film “When a Man Loves a Woman”

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

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

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

COSTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE

the job tested positive for either alcohol or drugs. Small businesses suffer the most - another statistic from the Substanc...

The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse

not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...

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...

Adolescents and Substance Abuse

In eight pages this paper examines adolescent substance abuse in terms of treatment and prevention. Ten sources are listed in the...

Connection Between the Abuse of Substances and Domestic Violence

violence is something thought of as being proliferated against women, but it can occur against men in both homosexual and heterose...

Substance Abuse and the Theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud

abuse is. Theories of Sigmund Freud When Sigmund Freud first introduced his theories of the subconscious during the late...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Substance Abuse

many different problems, including attention-deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression and a number of ...

Cases Regarding Substance Abuse Outpatient and Rehabilitation Centers

paper will attempt to examine the problem surrounding the construction of these treatment centers and how zoning has sometimes pro...

Senior Citizens and Substance Abuse

the prevalence of substance abuse among the elderly as it often goes unrecognized (Irons and Rosen, 2002). However, alcoholism do...

Substance Abuse and a Supervision Personal Theory

identifies five basic qualities of effective supervision: 1. Formal structure which is...

Substance Abuse Counseling and Clinical Supervision

addictions supervision" (Juhnke and Culbreth, 2002). Clinical supervision in the addictions arena is very different than clinica...

Hispanics, Black, Substance Abuse, and Multicultural Counseling

of African American counseling psychologists. 6. Barriers to access to mental health services. C. Latinos/Hispanic Americans 1. De...

Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

and the offering of support through interpreters, mental health assistance, and other forms of approach. Ethnic Divisions As a...

Families and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper examines how families are affected by substance abuse in a comparative analysis of rates in the United St...

Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbidity

In five pages a research design detailed in an article discussing adolescent substance abuse and comorbidity is critiqued. Four s...

Substance Abuse Rehab Program Termination

In five pages this paper examines the termination of a rehabilitation for substance abuse program from the perspective of a social...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Substance Abuse

In five pages this paper examines jimson weed indulgence and lotus eating in this consideration of how substance abuse is represen...

Crime, Alcohol, and Drugs

In twenty pages crime and the relationships both genetic and environmental that exist between its commission and abusing substance...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

Juvenile Development and the Negative Effects of TV Violence

young children, although incontestable, is one of the prominent societal concerns of the time. Such graphical violence has been d...

Alcoholics and ADHD

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

Pregnant Adolescent Minorities and the Treatment and Prevention of Substance Abuse

think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...

REBT and Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous' Twelve Steps Programs

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

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

Substance Abuse and Depression: Concurrent Disorders

This 3 page paper gives an outline of depression and substance abuse as concurrent disorders. This paper includes the general info...

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Reducing Recidivism

The problems inherent in substance abuse must be addressed if recidivism is to be reduced. This eleven page paper lists ten sourc...

Abuser Characteristics

This paper first discusses the characteristics of abusers that engage in domestic violence and then discusses the role of substanc...