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Nurses and Drug Abuse

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Addiction Recovery Programs - A Spiritual Rather than Religious Approach

and evolve addiction studies. Problem Statement This paragraph helps the student begin to frame the problem to be explored ove...

The Problem of Drug Addiction

about drug use and abuse. That is, while alcohol for example is alone not deadly if used reasonably, the alcohol seemed to reduce ...

AN OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES RECRUITMENT

Focuses on the recruitment and interview process for an addiction counselor and supermarket employee....

Technology as a Societal Addiction

weapons of mass destruction that are the center of world controversy today reflect that fact. These weapons do exist and they exi...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

A Look at Addiction

substance no matter what the consequences that led societies to research the issue and develop the disease concept. What is addi...

Criminology Case Study Analysis

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...

Section Addiction; the Addiction and Contrasting Treatments Using Narrative and Existential Therapy

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

The Internet

in ways that are harmful. They may cheat on a spouse, spend so much time online in chat rooms or gaming sites that they neglect th...

Types of Addiction

comics are well-produced and very content-rich. Theyre designed for adult readers, not like the western comics which are aimed onl...

Workaholics: A Categorization

read "Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase". Yes, our labor is indeed rewa...

Hydrocodone Abuse

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

The Effects of Pre-Natal Drug Use and Addiction

in one literature review, it was estimated that more than 1.4 million women of childbearing age currently use opiod-derived drugs,...

May's Addiction and Grace

ideas about religion or spirituality as after all, most addiction treatment is found in such areas. This psychiatrist draws on his...

Addictions and Their Cure

using heroin and other drugs" (3). The counselors were focused on getting him into another rehab or recovery program, or going to ...

Comprison of Four Interventions for Substance Abuse

Mental Health Services Administration: one out of every eight people in this country currently has a significant problem with alco...

Perceptions to Drug Addiction

the argument of Levine (1978) that disease approach to addiction was not a discovery that resulted from true medical research or s...

Issues Pertaining to Addiction

that involve "chemical substances" (Juhnke and Hagedorn, 2006, p. 5). However, other clinicians are of the opinion that a broader ...

Addiction Counseling - Critical Issues

This study, however, asserts that these barriers might be overcome by "tapping into the power of the group modality", such that ad...

Self-Regulation Outside Psychology

learning and academics. As the field of self-regulation in learning has emerged, an entirely new theory of self-regulated learning...

Discussion Questions for Family Therapy

to reaffirm his or her commitment to helping the addicted party. 2. Identify the five major drug detection tests. (2 points ...

Discussion Questions on Addiction and Group Therapy

initial stage of self-evaluation and who has admitted that they have a problem with addiction, and is in the early stages of recov...

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...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Internet Gambling Should be Banned

(13). Elster contends that gambling addiction comes about slowly and the first step is that someone finds himself in a certain env...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Teamwork: Looking Back While Looking Ahead At Management Teamwork

ongoing quest to make the workplace a more effective environment, it has also become an ever-changing one in relation to its modif...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...