Alcohol and Illicit Drug Abuse in Pregnancy Amy Luman COM/220 February 10‚ 2010 Philip Fasso When a woman becomes pregnant‚ it is vital to her baby’s health that she leads a healthy life. This includes eating plenty of nourishing food‚ fulfilling an adequate amount of rest‚ and exercising regularly. For a pregnant woman‚ pregnancy substance abuse is twice as dangerous. First‚ drugs may harm her own health‚ which interferes with her ability to support the pregnancy. Second‚ some drugs
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The research by Dirks-Linhorst‚ Groom & Linhorst (2012) focused on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment as an intermediate sanction on probationers in a jail setting who had been previously unsuccessful in completing community based treatment. Dirks-Linhorst et al. (2012) sought how this established method of treatment would differ among two separate groups of state probationers. One group of probationers was sent directly to jail upon their conviction and would participate in the Choices
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Unit 9 Final Project University Name Student Name AB/221 - Customer Service Professor Name Date Introduction Many companies use tiered services in their approach to customers. There are a lot of advantages linked to this type business framework; the disadvantages are not absent‚ as well. The purpose of this paper is to address the pros and cons of using tiered services at On-Time Technology Products and whether or not there would be risks involved with respect to losing some
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workers aim to protect people and assist them to change their lives. Social workers from all areas are likely to come across and work with families and people who are affected by their own or someone else’s alcohol or other drug problems. Increased substance used is reported within adults and people with learning disabilities (Davies: 2012). In the UK about one third of the grown-up residents amid the ages of 16 to 64 accept having used some sort of illicit drug in their life time. Individuals less than
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such as partaking in recreational illegal substance use. In addition‚ substance use (is a dependence on a legal or illegal drug or medication) as a disease (a disorder of structure or function in a human‚ animal‚ or plant‚ especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or affect a specific location) or choice has been a very controversial topic‚ creating a lot of debate among people and researchers. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ in 2013 “it was projected that 24.6 million
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REVIEW ILP AND CLIENT RIGHTS AND CLIENT CODE OF CONDUCT. CM reiterates the shelter rule and regulation and client must adhere to the shelter rule and regulation and 10pm curfew. WORKER ASSESSMENT: Plan of action: Client must participate in a substance & mental health program to address her drug dependency and major depression; client must continue with medication regimen. Client is not a candidate to live independently and her housing goal is unrealistic. Client must be open to a 24 hour SRO
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Assignment Instructions Unit: 9 Instructions: This week’s assignment consists of watching a scenario about Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. and answering questions regarding the use of new technology as a means of improving communication between employees and customers. Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. has a great problem...an increase in the number of customers! Employees have been consistently reporting that they are overwhelmed by the volume of customers and management has noticed that the number of reported
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Unit 9 Assignment 1 Internet Technologies Review NT 1210 Multiple: 1. B 2. B D 3. A D 4. B 5. B C 6. A 7. D 8. D 9. C 10. A B 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. C 15. C 16. A‚ B‚ C 17. A D 18. B D 19. A 20. B Unit 9 Assignment 1 Internet Technologies Review NT 1210 Key Terms: • The Internet-the global network formed by interconnection most of the network on the planet with each home and company network connecting to an internet service provider which in turn
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what I knew about her‚ we instantly connected because she was a lot like my own mother; the only difference was that mine did not have a drinking problem. Socioeconomic circumstances can change the approach and behavior people have regarding substance abuse. For example‚ my cultural climate includes a pleasant‚ urban neighborhood of ideal soccer moms and working mothers in stable careers‚ who are loving‚ caring‚ and patient. The culture I grew up in did not encourage mothers to drink‚ so being introduced
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Andrew Costa Professor Myles HUS 211 Substance Abuse 3/12/15 Opioids Outline Intro- Opium- from the Greek word opos‚ meaning juice or sap‚ was originally chewed‚ eaten‚ or blended into various liquids and swallowed. (Inaba 4-7) It was cultivated in The Mediterranean‚ and Southwest Asia. Dating all the way back to the 206 B.C.‚ Opium was a major product traded on the Silk Road. This classification of drugs is used primarily to treat pain‚ diarrhea‚ and cough. They are known to bring on a sense
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