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results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
to throw a game. Greed is often at the crux of sports gambling. Players, even if they are doing rather well, may be lured by easy...
dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...
wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...
This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...
she became a prostitute and fulfilled her role as a drug addict who would do anything to get a fix. Of course, labeling theory has...
3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how "The Wizard of Oz" was Garland's first major step toward a life of drug addic...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
are admitted sex addicts and "shopohaulics." No one would want to outlaw shopping or sex, but of course, sex and shopping are regu...
affected by it. Young people are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol as their brains are still developing. Adolesc...
for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...
(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...
addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...
the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...
should be regarded as legitimate treatments that help to wean the addicted individual from the abused substance both psychologica...
(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...
alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...
dog; the dog naturally salivated with anticipation for his food. After a while, the dog would salivate when he heard the bell whet...
the set point assumption: they are inconsistent with eating pressures as they have evolved; predictions have not been confirmed; a...
but they are human problems. People who get into trouble with these substances need help, not censure. This paper describes some o...
families, something unheard of in the past. Also, the dual career couple is the primary family working pattern today (Elloy & Flyn...
Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...
This research paper responds to three questions, which pertain to addiction, civic education and critical thinking. Three pages in...
learning and academics. As the field of self-regulation in learning has emerged, an entirely new theory of self-regulated learning...
ABSTRACT Sexual addiction is a common element of the modern...
is that this is a "maladaptive pattern of use and impaired control over a behavior with associated adverse consequences" (Garcia a...
have to share the proceeds with anyone. The first man generally enters through a garage door. The second man, however, indicated ...
For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...
basis. Rather than automatically discount such plans, practitioners must always evaluate these tentative suicide plans and the int...
This study, however, asserts that these barriers might be overcome by "tapping into the power of the group modality", such that ad...