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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...

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

view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...

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

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

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

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

30 of the respondents or 32.6% had no history of abuse. 24 respondents equating to 26.08% of the sample had a history of abuse as ...

6 felony. Signed by former Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 4, 1999, the law gave animal protection agencies the legal teeth it need...

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...

well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...

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

more common than single-gene disorders, tend to involve multiple genes, also include significant environmental factors, and are as...

et al, 1993, p. 393), traits that are indicative to a normally responding student. The protection of minors, another area i...

appropriate, but notes that there are no pharmaceutical treatments available specifically for short term memory loss. The c...

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

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

Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...

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

European Monetary Union has not just developed out of the recognized need for economic stability, but also from the perception tha...

appropriate research. One element that must be recognized when locating relevant material on this topic is that there may not be ...

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

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

within the scope of this relationship commonly provided substantive information about the emotional status of the individual. ...

the system. Solutions of course are to enlarge the building and hire more teachers, but in order to do this, the money has to be t...

which have seemingly led also to a sexual addiction. Heidi has been worried about her falling grades as well as her deteriorating ...