Cocaine Treatment for Women As a young lady‚ a mother‚ or a grandmother‚ if seeking cocaine treatment for women has not been an easy process‚ you now have new opportunities because health care professionals now understand the need for treatment that is especially designed for women. Traditionally‚ addiction treatment was developed with a signal focus to stop using and did not take into account the different physical‚ emotional‚ and social needs of men and women. But research has shown the many
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policy is called mass-incarceration. The United States prison systems should reallocate their money to focus more on correction than on life-long punishment so that taxpayers save money and potentially transform life time prisoners into productive citizens. The economics behind prisons have changed over the past four decades. Prisons in the U.S. have cost taxpayers more and more every year going back as far as the 1970’s. As much as $87‚000‚000‚000 has been spent on incarceration every year. With an
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Female Incarceration Is the incarceration rate of females in the United States rising? Drug War Facts: Women; http://www.drugwarfacts.org/women.htm The Drug War Facts website is a great statistical resource. The information presented on the site is complied from several criminal and federal justice statistic websites and organized in a concise format. I felt that the information was accurate and reliable as all statistics were cited from a credible‚ and in most cases‚ government web resource
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believed that one major controversy regarding mass incarceration is should inmates be educated. It caused the United States about sixty thousand a year to lock up one male and roughly eighty thousand to lock up a female‚ it cost around sixty thousand to send someone to Brown University‚ a college education has become cheaper than keeping a prisoner incarcerated (Monteiro). Monterio believes that there should be some sort of transitional program where prisoners can learn how to take care of themselves
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Autonomy Vs. Paternalism In Mental Health Treatment The assignment for this Ethics class was to review Mr. Jacob ’s treatment‚ as described by the New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally disabled (1994). The class was further asked to comment on the major issues for each of the three perspectives. The agencies‚ family and review board were to be included. This student will begin with a fourth perspective; that of Mr. Gordon. In the Matter of Jacob Gordon (1994)
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Tuberculosis Program or NTP. This program envisions our nation as a country where TB is no longer a public health problem. The goal therefore is to reduce the prevalence and mortality from TB by half by the year 2015. Now‚ this is where DOTS comes in. At first‚ I thought DOTS is just about making sure that the patient is really taking in his TB regimens – like literally swallowing the medicines on schedule. It‚ however‚ is not just as simple as that. DOTS or Direct Observed Treatment‚ Short-Course
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equitable and credible. I support the statement that reveals that minorities face prejudice treatment in the american legal system. There have been a series of academic journals and articles that support the accusation that there is discrimination lingering in the american legal system and or the criminal justice system. In one of the articles that I have read titled Incarceration & Social inequality by Becky Pettit‚ Bryan Sykes‚ and Bruce Western‚ made the statement that
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Corrections and Treatment John Cho University of Phoenix Corrections and treatment within the Juvenile Justice System have a variety of helpful rehabilitative and crime deterrent programs. These programs can help young juvenile offenders correct behavioral patterns‚ therapeutically rehabilitate their mental state‚ and prevent long term criminal activity. The treatment options are separated into two smaller categories: community-based treatment and institutionalization. The two types of treatment options
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2 What is meant by mass incarceration‚ and what are its causes? What is meant by mass incarceration is shown a american’s disproportionately high rate of imprisonment of young men. Some causes according to the reading of mass incarceration is that it generally deters crime and incapacitates offenders. However‚ it is not limited to weakening poor families and keeps them socially marginalized. 5 How is it that‚ for many members of our society‚ being incarcerated is not “punishment” but rather
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The Treatment and Prevention of Drug Use and Abuse Professor Gross CJ: 411 Drugs and Alcohol in the Criminal Justice System 10/7/14 By Jimmy Ortega Juveniles across the country have many issues in today’s society however; the issues that are at hand can be prevented if the parents or guardians have control over that certain juvenile. If that parent doesn’t have control of that teen there are certain places in which the parents can reach out to and get help dealing with
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