Recreational drugs and their neurological consequences. Stimulants Recreational drug use is the use of a drug with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Drugs commonly considered capable of recreational use include alcohol‚ nicotine‚ caffeine‚ and drugs that offer psychological and physical effects mostly in the form of euphoria. Recreational drug use is very common in America and while they are used for their pleasure purpose the long-term effects
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Outline and Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia
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Alcoholic abuse and mental disorder does not just happened to individual’s alcoholism adversely affect the entire family dynamic. The persons who suffers are often hurt the most by an alcoholic is the family; role confusion‚ problem solve‚ physical and emotional safety‚ and psychological. The alcoholic choosing the substance over the family-is essentially abandoning the family. Such is the case in the film‚ When a Man Loves a Woman‚ is about an alcoholic who had to hit rock-bottom to see the effects
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Asia-Pacific region. Optus is proud to be a part of a premier Optus partner and our aim is to set the standard for retail telecommunications sales and customer service in Australia. (See Appendix 1) In order to become familiar with the recruit‚ select and induct process it is important to gain understanding on the reasons as to why we conduct these processes and why do they benefit us as an organisation. I will focus firstly on job analysis‚ which is the basic HR activity because it focuses attention
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repressed memory of his wife killing their three kids and then teddy killing her. Teddy (Andrew) also has dissociative identify disorder. The evidence for this would be that he is not only Teddy‚ the U.S. Marshal‚ but he is also Andrew‚ the man who killed his wife because she killed their kids. Andrew’s wife suffered from bipolar disorder. Teddy has a phobic disorder towards water. Evidence for this is Teddy getting sick on the boat and the quote from Teddy saying‚ “Pull yourself together Teddy
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Natural disasters‚ Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic stress disorder: Individual‚ Psychological and Social Impacts Natural disasters‚ Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic stress disorder: Individual‚ Psychological and Social Impacts Introduction Disasters characteristically occur quickly leaving behind comprehensive physiological and psychological impairment (Fullerton‚ Robert‚ & Wang‚ 2004). Natural disasters specifically are defined by the world health organization (1980)
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PROJECT 1 RECRUIT‚ SELECT AND INDUCT STAFF Introduction Baker’s Delight is Australia’s most successful bakery in Melbourne CBD. Over the past 20 years‚ this Australian owned Company has grown over 70 bakeries across the Melbourne. Every day‚ in every bakery‚ Baker’s Delight bakers create a range of traditional and gourmet breads. All products are baked from scratch‚ fresh daily on the premises. Baker’s Delight
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part of a parent or caretaker which results in death‚ serious physical or emotional harm‚ sexual abuse or exploitation‚ an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm". The four main types of abuse are physical‚ sexual‚ psychological‚ and neglect. Neglect Neglect is the instance in which the responsible adult fails to adequately provide for various needs‚ including physical (failure to provide adequate food clothing‚ or hygiene)‚ emotional (failure to provide nurturing or
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Chronic Consumption of Ethanol Alcohol and Neurological Dysfunction Ethanol Alcohol‚ commonly known as Alcohol is the primary mood altering drug used in the United States of America. When alcohol is consumed it is absorbed unaltered by the stomach and the small intestines. Then the ethanol molecules are distributed evenly to all of the tissues and fluids of the body. The alcohol present in the bloodstream is metabolized by the liver through three pathways. The major pathway involves an enzyme
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hallucinations at any time and for any reason that can possibly relate to an event in his past. Something as small as the color of an object being the same as one that could be observed in a past event can trigger these. Joshua also suffers from another psychological issue where he sets unrealistic goals and regardless of if he met them or not‚ he will live as though he did. Often his hallucinations will include reliving the moment when he first made plans to carry out these life goals. He works as a traveling
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