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Heroin Addiction Treatment and the Impact of Developmental Psychology

lines of demarcation shaped by race, socioeconomic status, gender, or age. It was at it height in the late 1970s. In fact, 1979...

Drug Addiction Treatment Through Developmental Psychology

In twelve pages this paper examines how developmental psychology has proven effective in drug addiction treatment therapy. Ten so...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

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...

Article Synopsis; L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology

social as well as individual. The to important elements in terms of modern though are the "zone of proximal development" which is...

Adolescents and Drug Addiction

a beautiful young lady...There is no way to describe the daily misery and agony I went through while addicted to heroin" (The Agon...

Chemical Dependency Issues

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

Industrial Organizational Psychology

1921, James Cattell founded the Psychological Corporation for the purpose of advancing psychology and promoting its value in indus...

Issues in Psychology

This essay offers five questions with answers. Topics include using behavior modification to change one's own behavior, developmen...

A Better Intervention Program for Smokers

Research has confirmed that nicotine addiction is at least as strong as heroin addiction. This means that it is at least as hard t...

Developmental Psychology and a Premier Virtual Computer Generated Symposium

labeled and controlled by drugs, something that alleviates the difficulties for the teachers and parents, but has unknown latent e...

Drug Use of Sherlock Holmes

to the use of some narcotic" (A Seven-Percent Solution, 2003). Holmes was, in his private life, a moody individual who had begun ...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Heroin Addiction and Substance Abuse

This paper consists of eight pages and focuses upon heroin addiction and the topic of substance abuse with challenges such addicts...

Optimizing Emotional Health Benefits and Opiates

health effectiveness to the treatment of depression and the dependence upon heroin. Depression is likely the most common malady e...

Questions on Requiem For a Dream

This paper offers answers to nine questions that address Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. The film focuses on the...

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...

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...

Developmental Psychology: Theories

who is considered one of the ten leading educators in American history for setting a significant precedence with regard to human b...

Classrooms and Developmental Psychology Applications

stage (Berk, 2001). The anal stage is at one to three years and the phallic stage is from three to six years; latency is from si...

Overview of Developmental Psychology

From two to seven months, the infant makes such rapid growth that it affects not only his own behavior but that of the caregiver. ...

Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...

Cogntive and Developmental Psychology

This paper has several sections beginning with an explanation two subfields-cognitive psychology and developmental psychology. The...

The Ethics of Coerced Treatment for Addiction

crime to pay for their habits, they fail academically, and they fail in society as a whole. Drug abusers can become violent or en...

Substance Abuse and AIDS Correlation

In six pages the relationship between substance abuse, particularly heroin, and AIDS is discussed and AIDS' effects on intravenous...

Adolescents and Heroin Use

it is rather surprising that in this day and age, teens that have been raised on DARE in a transparent environment are buying tran...

AN OVERVIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES RECRUITMENT

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

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 ...

Use of Heroin, Dependency, and Treatment Alternatives

In ten pages the drug heroin and its addictive characteristics are examined in a consideration of use, dependency, effects, and tr...