Substance Use and Treatment My use of Ritalin never occurred to me as substance abuse. I had been pretending to be suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) for some time as an excuse for my low grades in school and Ritalin was prescribed to me. I never took the medication since I knew I was not sick so I hid them. Until A friend of mine came visiting and saw them and informed me that‚ that was what he used to help him study. He told me that the pills helped one stay awake for hours which I
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Substance abuse is a devastating issue that can be found in almost every society. Though this is not a household problem‚ it is definitely neither an uncommon problem across the world today. The issue often starts in the teenage years and can escalate to various lengths of severity well into adulthood. Substance abuse has a negative outcome and also has many adverse effects on the abuser and on those around them‚ like their families and other impressionable youth. Drugs and alcohol provide the
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are resorting to substance abuse. There are many different situations that result in different reasons why teens struggle with drug and or alcohol abuse. Today’s teenagers cry out continuously for their own personal freedom but in many ways they have thrown out their responsibilities as well as their right to these personal freedoms with their increasing turn towards drugs. Many negative factors can come into play from substance abuse. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ in 1997 nearly
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University of Phoenix Field Experience III BSHS 491 Comprehensive Treatment Plan LaTosha Clark August 16‚ 2012 Instructor: Carla Franco Allison has been in foster care for most of her life. Allison ran away from home because of verbal and physical abuse when she was ten years old from her adopted family and now Allison is 20 years and homeless and needing somewhere to stay and fortunately she was approved to live at Penny Lane in the transitional housing program. Her strengths are by
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on substance use and abuse? Do your substance use behaviors/beliefs differ from those of your family‚ favorite media star‚ or peers? Growing up‚ I led somewhat of a sheltered life in a moderately conservative Christian home so using drugs was neither an option I explored or even considered. My mother is abstinent when it comes to alcohol and my father had an occasional beer during the summer when fishing but other than that I was pretty much naïve when it came to any type of substance abuse. My
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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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Presenting Problem Pt is a 17 y/o African American male presenting to NNBHC with increase agitation and HI with plan. Pt communicated in school last week that he was going to kill his teacher and peers. Pt states that he didn’t mean these statements he was just thinking them out loud. Pt states that he is in special education and he was once in general education but he is having a hard time transitioning due all of his peers in his class are “special”. Pt mother report the pt is constantly bullied
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homeless? Contents 1.0 HYPOTHESIS 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Legislation 3.0 Homelessness 3. 1 what is homelessness? 3.2 Legal definition of homelessness 3.3 The effects of homelessness 4.0 Substance abuse. 4.1 What is substance abuse? 4.2 The effects of drug abuse 4.3 possible prevention strategies/ example 5.0 key debates 5.2 Graph A 5.4 Graph B 6.0 Methodology 7.0 reflective accounts 8.0 Bibliography Appendix includes: 1. Copy of Questionnaire 2
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the case. There are thousands of people who chose the negative way to deal with their daily lives and that way is in the form of substance abuse and/or addiction. This kind of destructive behavior is a global problem and I don’t think people will ever realize the harm that it brings. Sometimes there is misunderstandings between substance abuse and substance addiction and the two often get their definitions mixed up‚ even though there may be some bit of overlapping. Substance abuse doesn’t
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When beginning to implement the treatment plan it is important to consider the standards of best practises (mentioned earlier)‚ the key elements of the case‚ and a disability management model to create a foundation and starting point. The model chosen to base the treatment plan upon is the managed care model‚ this is due to the prevention strategies and foundation on disability duration and injury norms it provides (Pransky‚ Shaw‚ Franche‚ & Clarke‚ 2004). This can then aid in improved workplace
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