YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse
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as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...
not as healthy as those of younger adults. Metabolism changes and older individuals cannot handle alcohol in he same way as their ...
then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
research shows that the majority of women, and also a percentage of men, who seek treatment for substance abuse disorders indicate...
This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...
In five pages this quantitative research proposal regarding HIV and substance abuse treatment relies upon the statement variable '...
In many circumstances, the punitive nature of those dealing with addicts of all types has changed toward an awareness that there a...
The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...
with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...
that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...
the negative environmental effects that the child of the suburbs does not have to face, even though both may be facing life with a...
Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...
processes, and appropriate diagnosing, as well as proposing specific interventions that can be used and preventative strategies fo...
of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...
and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...
There is a scale of addiction-on one side is complete abstinence, to abuse, to dependence, to addiction. It is very difficult to h...
This study uses several research studies about social workers as its core. The focus is on social workers and the elderly. Technol...
Most programs intended to stop teenagers from using and abusing substances fail because the teenager does not want to be there and...
be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the problems connected with adult children caring for their elderly parents by disc...
In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...
In twenty pages a research proposal is presented in which the correlation between substance abuse in adolescents and being sexuall...
When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...
This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...
In eight pages the global aging population issue is discussed with elder abuse laws, increasing incidences of abuse and neglect, a...