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Family Substance Abuse, Violence, and Women

In ten pages this paper examines these issues from a social work perspective. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Program/Aiding Adult Female Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse

research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Children and the Impact of Substance Abuse

the negative environmental effects that the child of the suburbs does not have to face, even though both may be facing life with a...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Treatment for Substance Abuse and HIV

In five pages this quantitative research proposal regarding HIV and substance abuse treatment relies upon the statement variable '...

Substance Abuse Counselor Certification

In many circumstances, the punitive nature of those dealing with addicts of all types has changed toward an awareness that there a...

How to Serve a Client with Multiple Physical and Mental Health Issues

combination of these factors can lead to an increase rate of CNS deterioration which in turn can lead to increased neurological si...

Social Conflict Theory, A Program Evaluation

This paper is an evaluation of Restoration House's New Hope for Families program, which is a community-based residential treatmen...

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...

A Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom by James Ptacek

This 5 page essay explores the legal complications faced by a woman litigating abuse. 1 source....

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Dependence and Addiction

There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Teenage Substance Abuse Treatment

Most programs intended to stop teenagers from using and abusing substances fail because the teenager does not want to be there and...

Counseling Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment

population, with the largest demographic designation being individuals of mixed race, as they comprise 6 percent of the population...

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's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Women and Impact of Abusing Alcohol and Drugs

Gastric metabolism is almost nonexistent for alcoholic women (Kilbourne, 1992; p. 4). Thus far, most research on alcoholism has ...

1600s to 1900s Women in America

This paper examines this time period in terms of women with such topics as sexuality, domesticity, religion, crime, and substance ...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...

Prisons and Drug Abuse

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

Substance Abuse in Adolescents and the Predictor of Childhood Sexual Abuse

In twenty pages a research proposal is presented in which the correlation between substance abuse in adolescents and being sexuall...

British Columbia and the Problems of Substance Abuse Among Canadian Youth

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Substance Abuse and Child Abuse

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...

Women and Using Drugs

Can convergence theory be used to discuss the increase in the use of substances among women? The writer of this paper does that. T...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...