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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 ...

Women and Impact of Abusing Alcohol and Drugs

Gastric metabolism is almost nonexistent for alcoholic women (Kilbourne, 1992; p. 4). Thus far, most research on alcoholism has ...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

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...

Prisons and Drug Abuse

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

Overview of Child Abuse

This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...

Child Abuse/Its Effects on Self Esteem

This research paper discusses the apallilng statistics pertaining to the abuse of both children and women. The writer focuses on t...

Comprehensive Overview of Domestic Violence

In eighteen pages a comprehensive overview of domestic violence is presented in terms of its various types and includes such issue...

Abuse Cases, Elder and Child Abuse

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

Sexual Abuse as a Cause of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

Abuser Characteristics

This paper first discusses the characteristics of abusers that engage in domestic violence and then discusses the role of substanc...

Law Enforcement Models

Four decades ago, police departments began considering other models of policing that would bring them closer to the people. Team p...

Prevention of Health Care Access: Stigmas

This 10 page paper gives an overview of health care access problems. This paper includes mental illness, substance abuse disorders...

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

An Article on Drug Addiction and Korean Teens Summarized

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

Different Clients and Different Types of Social Work Practice

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

Social Conflict Theory, A Program Evaluation

This paper is an evaluation of Restoration House's New Hope for Families program, which is a community-based residential treatmen...

Behavior and the Effects of Social Influence

want to hone in on specific types of examples such as substance abuse, because then it will be easier to convey how social influen...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

Dual Relationship Challenges Between Client And Professional

sometimes an individuals perceived reality can hinder his or her ability to see things as they truly are, which then requires the ...

Cognitive Therapy : Addiction & Trauma

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...