YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Drug Abuse and the Elderly
Essays 61 - 90
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...
their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...
long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...
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...
societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...
drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...
doctor can be more dangerous than people think. In fact, its drug abuse. And its just as illegal as taking street drugs. Whether ...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...
must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...
B. Abuse of illicit drugs increasing among seniors. C. Prescription drugs. 1. Seniors take many more drugs than younger adults. 2....
but they are not unreachable if the firm does their homework. Sixteen to twenty-five year olds will not respond, research has show...
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...
associated with drug abuse can indeed be quite severe. In "Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review" authors Mich...
In five pages this paper discusses the abuse of drugs in this consideration of pregnant women's rights versus the rights of the fe...
Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
trying to improve this situation. It seems important to spend some time on this aspect of the topic in light of the fact that it d...
grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...
because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...
of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...
had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...
touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...
This paper consists of five pages and features a sample of an interview with a one time abuser of drugs who discusses the life eff...