YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Look at Addiction
Essays 121 - 150
crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
This is unfortunate, because college students are significantly more likely to have problems with gambling than older adults, and ...
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...
helps smokers to see nicotine as a drug and 43 percent of their program participants are smoke-free after a year (Hazelden Foundat...
lines of demarcation shaped by race, socioeconomic status, gender, or age. It was at it height in the late 1970s. In fact, 1979...
wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...
and their attempts to fulfill their desires (Boeree, 1997). This leads to a lack of social interest or concern (Boeree, 1997). On...
dynamics to the point of the child being disrespectful to parents, harboring a negative attitude, breaking rules, instigating quar...
(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
in which he or she is most vulnerable to drug use, avoid those high-risk situations whenever possible, and use a range of behavior...
Alternatives, 2001). "Harm reduction" first arose in Great Britain, under the premise that use of illicit drugs should be ...
a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...
target demographic and the running costs could increased substantially where there is a very low rate of unemployment and labour c...
In seven pages this paper examines a woman's recovery from anorexia and alcoholism and also considers inner child concepts. Five ...
In twelve pages this paper discusses psychological testing and its effects upon substance abuse in terms of diagnosis, prevention ...
In twelve pages this paper examines the problem of gambling from a sociological perspective. Seven sources are cited in the bibli...
many therapists as well, are labeling acts of free will as diseases or disorders, in looking at the addiction paradigm, if accepte...
most positive effect on the needs of the organism. Schwartz and Robbins (1995) for instance, found that injection of morphine prod...
elaborate the description of a college campus as a community...] Major drugs used for addictions can be arranged in four categori...
widely used substance. Statistics from 1997 show that about 1.5 million ("New treatments," 2001, p.6) Americans had recently used...
In seven pages this paper examines how the U.S. government can resolve the complex issue of pregnant addicts in a theoretical cons...
In five pages a psychological perspective is employed in this examination of compulsive shopping that includes symptoms and a shop...
provides an overview of what is available in terms of assisting addicts to turn their lives around. Finally, this medical journal ...
deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...
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...
issues may still have the potential for a very large impact. The idea of the e-book is that a book may be bought in electronic f...