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Literature Review on Stress Agents

often takes more than 20 years for the effects of cigarette smoke to develop into a detectable malignancy" (p. PG). II. ADOLESCEN...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

Coexisting Disorders and Recommended Treatment

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

The Children of Alcoholics and the Impact of Alcoholism

ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of his friends, ...

A Critique on a Research Project Article

it represented a quantitative approach, which begins with an idea that is usually articulated as a hypothesis. From there, throug...

A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill

time at home with his wife and family. It is his father who will introduce young Pete to alcohol, and Hamill will write of it as ...

Criminal Justice and Alcoholism

of drug addiction (alcohol included) and they engage in criminal activity to support that addiction. Statistics support this obs...

Family Alcoholism and its Impact on Teenage Girls' Development

what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a brief struggle, turned the knife back on her father. II. LITERATUR...

Social Work and Alcoholism

are the personal and societal costs. There is no way to predict which families will suffer from the direct and indirect impacts of...

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Workplace Absenteeism and Alcoholism

are alcohol related" (Clifford; Soares, 1990; 26). In addition, an alcoholics life expectancy is less than it is for most healthy ...

Alcoholism, A Family Disease

to demonstrate that it is not easy to pinpoint or treat. It affects people from all walks of life. The bum on the street might not...

Social Considerations for the Alcohol Industry in Poland

significant reduction in mean alcohol consumption among the major targets of its Strategy Health for All in 2000" (Moskalewiczi, 2...

A Definition for Alcoholism

notably denial" ("Definition of Alcoholism, 1990). This definition is similar to the one provided by the DSM IV regarding substanc...

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...

Alcoholism: Children of Alcoholic Parents

2007). In first examining this condition, from a broad perspective, it is helpful to note some of the facts concerning families/ch...

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Using the term "disability" was okay as well. The old model however would focus on pathology as well as an individuals deficienci...

Discovering Adult Alcoholism Solutions

I. Preliminary plan overview A. Alcoholism is an absence of self-discipline. B. Alcoholism can be viewed as...

Alcohol Coping Interventions and Family Assessment

past decade. Richard is 47 years old and was initially referred to counseling by his primary care physician, who argued that his ...

Baby Boom and its Causes

rather low (Easterlin, 1992). During the 1950s, aligned with the baby boom, forecasters did ignore the low fertility projections a...

Child Development and 'Fussy' Baby at the Age of Two Months

foot, cutting off circulation. The hair was removed and the toes were treated. Strahlman (2003) points out that massive maternal h...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Anorexia: A Lifestyle Choice

as a whole. While these influences are most obvious in terms of teenage girls, they are present as well in regard to teenage boys...

Pollution and the Tourism Industry

was worth a total of $5.5 trillion (Wagner, 2005). In the United States the travel and tourism sector is very important to the ec...

Migraines and Acupuncture

those common impacts noted above, migraines can be life threatening for those with a higher propensity for such potentially fatal ...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Death By Electricity

Prior to death, the heart will begin racing wildly and it loses its rhythm at 50mA (Aggrawal, 1993). What causes the electrical c...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...