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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...

Hydrocodone Abuse

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

Substance Abuse and AIDS Correlation

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

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...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

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...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

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...

Program/Aiding Adult Female Victims of Childhood Sex Abuse

research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...

Substance Abuse Effects

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

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Treatment for Substance Abuse and HIV

In five pages this quantitative research proposal regarding HIV and substance abuse treatment relies upon the statement variable '...

Children and the Impact of Substance Abuse

the negative environmental effects that the child of the suburbs does not have to face, even though both may be facing life with a...

Chemical Dependency Assessment

In eleven pages this research paper examines how assisting a patient that has a problem with chemical dependency is assessed with ...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Substance Abuse Counselor Certification

In many circumstances, the punitive nature of those dealing with addicts of all types has changed toward an awareness that there a...

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...

Addiction And Substance Abuse: Comorbidity

likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...

Substance Abuse Addiction

This paper of three pages examines the negative traits associated with addiction and addresses issues related to family functionin...

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...

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...

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 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 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 ...

Teenage Substance Abuse Treatment

Most programs intended to stop teenagers from using and abusing substances fail because the teenager does not want to be there and...

Substance Abuse and Child Abuse

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...