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Drug Addiction and Psychological Testing

In twelve pages this paper discusses psychological testing and its effects upon substance abuse in terms of diagnosis, prevention ...

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 ...

Hydrocodone Abuse

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

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...

Issues in Psychological Testing

or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior" (Kaplan and Saccuzzo, 2008, p. 6). A spelling test, for instance, offers a...

Issues in Family Addiction Therapy

intent is not to minimize the problem, but rather to discern ways in which family members can be supportive (Juhnke and Hagedorn, ...

Substance Abuse Effects

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

Adolescents, Addiction, and Drugs

In eight pages a brief essay format and assemblage of notes consider adolescents and problems of drugs and addiction with a consid...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...

Public Schools and Drug Testing

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

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,...

Employment Candidates and Psychological Testing

In five pages this paper discusses job application processes and managed care organization psychological testing of prospective em...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Prison System and Drug Programs

In ten pages prison systems and drug use are examined in a discussion of penal system drug addiction program implementation. Four...

Drug and Alcohol Addiction

challenge easily, but it is not so much if a drugs can challenge easily it matters if a drug is taken in a certain way to present ...

Drugs, Zero Tolerance and City Ice and Cold Storage

The issue of drug use and abuse at City Ice and Cold Storage is not always an easy situation to manage; however, regardless of rec...

Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized?

focus to intervention and rehabilitation. Others oppose this view, arguing that the War on Drugs is working and that to decriminal...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

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...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Psychological Tests - Their Validity and Usage

the MMPI uses this scale, an individuals responses are judged across five key dimensions that correspond to aspects of personality...

Psychological Testing - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

tested must absolutely be informed "about the nature and purpose of the assessment" and then give their consent to be assessed in ...

Psychological Tests and Their Uses

its various manifestations, as well as touch upon its appropriateness and reliability as a precise tool Before going into the maj...

Psychological Tests and When to Use Them

applications of these tests that can be disruptive or harmful to the individuals involved. This paper will explore the appropriate...

Psychological Testing - How to Acquire Information

Additionally, within the realm of books written on the topic of psychological tests, it is considered particularly rich, and to ha...

The Construction of Psychological Tests

test development is the factor analysis method. In this method, one identifies the "dimensions underlying a large number of observ...