Essays 211 - 240
This research paper focuses on a client scenario, in which the client has a cocaine addition. The topics covered include assessmen...
important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
Alcoholism and other types of drug addictions impact not just those that suffer from the disease but also their relatives. Drug...
This research paper focuses on the role of peer pressure in regards to adolescent use of marijuana. Whether or not marijuana shoul...
This paper continues on in the quit smoking program in a mental health hospital. The paper reports a simple revenue and expense bu...
This paper discusses the personal narratives of soldiers and indicates the parts of these narratives that are applicable to Procha...
elaborate the description of a college campus as a community...] Major drugs used for addictions can be arranged in four categori...
In three pages this paper discusses dementia in elderly patients and how dementia can result in this consideration of etiology and...
g of cannabis, and up to 2-3 mgs can induce pleasurable effects for the occasional marijuana user (Hall and Solowij, 1998, p. 1611...
widely used substance. Statistics from 1997 show that about 1.5 million ("New treatments," 2001, p.6) Americans had recently used...
deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...
provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...
physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...
many therapists as well, are labeling acts of free will as diseases or disorders, in looking at the addiction paradigm, if accepte...
In twelve pages this paper examines the problem of gambling from a sociological perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibli...
In twelve pages this paper discusses psychological testing and its effects upon substance abuse in terms of diagnosis, prevention ...
In seven pages this paper examines a woman's recovery from anorexia and alcoholism and also considers inner child concepts. Five ...
In five pages a psychological perspective is employed in this examination of compulsive shopping that includes symptoms and a shop...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...
Alternatives, 2001). "Harm reduction" first arose in Great Britain, under the premise that use of illicit drugs should be ...
most positive effect on the needs of the organism. Schwartz and Robbins (1995) for instance, found that injection of morphine prod...
In seven pages this paper examines how the U.S. government can resolve the complex issue of pregnant addicts in a theoretical cons...
Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...
in which he or she is most vulnerable to drug use, avoid those high-risk situations whenever possible, and use a range of behavior...
likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...
specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...
stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...
equipped to penetrate any computer system with the intent to take, destroy or manipulate the information found upon that system; i...