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Arguing in Favor of Reallocating Funds for Programs Involving Drug Abuse and Alcohol Treatment

would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

Incarceration v. Rehabilitation in the Drug Abuse Issue

The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...

Relationships Between Crime and Drug Abuse

community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

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...

Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Two Major Social Problems

computers, and increasing insurance coverage are three simple factors that might have increased the number of reports made to auth...

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...

Drug Abuse, its causes and effects

they are addicted and also when they feel that they cannot deal with the problems in life without the drug(Mayo Clinic Staff). W...

Teen Pregnancy

then offered up how research has demonstrated that children born to such women are at a clear social disadvantage, research that s...

Trends and Statistics on Drug Use

and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

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...

Drug Use, Abuse and Treatment in a Social Interactive Approach

difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...

Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Young People and the Impact of Substance Abuse

had fewer suicidal thoughts than those who used drugs and engaged in sex (2004). Those who used marijuana, and perhaps other illeg...

LSD's History

touted as the proverbial magic bullet. It was proscribed for everything from migraines to schizophrenia. The LSD craze, however, g...

TV and Substance Abuse

long ago Dr. Phil railed against a teenager for smoking pot every day. There are mixed messages on television about drugs. While t...

Substance Abuse and Burlington Northern Railroad

because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Welfare Teen's Life

seems so hopeless. Furthermore, living in poverty is likely to take its toll in many ways as well. They...

Essay on Drug Abuse

Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...

Teens and Abortion

means of not getting pregnant and should perhaps be the first option for teens, and anyone else who does not want to get pregnant,...

Long Island City Community Program of Drug Prevention Proposal

drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...