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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Evolution of the Treatment of Depression Marla A Jennings HCS-531 05-06-2013 Georgetta Baptist Evolution of the Treatment of Depression “Depression has been known to be around since 400 B.C. when Hippocrates treated mental illness as diseases to be understood in terms of disturbed physiology‚ rather than reflections of the displeasure of the gods or evidence of demonic possession‚ as they were often treated in Egyptian‚ Indian‚ Greek‚ and Roman writings (PBS.org‚ 1999) “In the
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that it contains. (A. Mason‚ et.al‚ 2013). Sewage treatment is the process of removing the elements or component of sewage to produce liquid and solid suitable for discharge to the environment or also to be use. Treatment processes can be divided into two treatments‚ which
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in medicine having leaped forward within the last 20 years‚ prolonging life by means of technology has become common place in the medical community. These life-sustaining advances in treatments have brought up moral issues of whether it is the right of an individual to suppress his or her own life-sustaining treatment if they so desire. Our society has become a youth-worshipping society. It is almost as if we have taken on old-age and death as just another disease that need to be conquered. The fact
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Psychotherapeutic Treatments of Major Depressive Disorder Seham Saba National University Author Note This paper is being submitted to Eugene Furnace‚ MS in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Clinical Assessment II‚ PSY623B‚ on May 2nd‚ 2013. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Seham Saba‚ College of Letters and Sciences‚ National University San Bernardino Campus‚ 804 East Brier Drive‚ San Bernardino‚ CA 92408. E-mail: sehamsaba@hotmail.com Abstract This
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A Critique of Dialectical Behavioral Treatment for Adolescents Psychological Research & Statistics Introduction According to a review done by Clive Robins & Alex Chapmen (2004)‚ dialectical behavior therapy (dbt) was originally created for parasuicidal women with borderline disorder. This method has been adapted to treat many other populations‚ especially adolescents‚ for it’s ability to keep patients committed to treatment as well as for its focus on reducing behaviors that interfere
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untreatable‚ there are actually several treatment options available (Amer et al.‚ 2015). Aside from using makeup to coverup the discolored skin‚ there are treatments which aim to restore normal skin color and also an option to remove pigment from unaffected skin. In regard to restoration of pigment‚ treatment either takes the form of spot treatment or whole body treatment. There are two topical spot treatments as well as mini grafting. The spot treatments are considerable less invasive but also
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Reentry Drug Treatment Programs in the Criminal Justice System Melinda Duplichan CJA 595 Program Development and Evaluation Professor: Myers Reentry Drug Treatment Programs in the Criminal Justice System There are many programs in the criminal justice system that is geared to helping the prisoners while they do their time. One of them is the drug treatment program‚ this program according to the Federal Bureau of Prison is suppose to provide inmates with drug
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with various treatment options for those who are in need. Community treatment orders is one option that is offered. However‚ such option may be an example of the system moving two steps back towards its olds regime. This paper will analyze the debate towards the ethics behind Community Treatment Orders. Community treatment order is defined as “the legal provision by which a physician may require a person with a mental illness who meets specific criteria to follow a course of treatment while living
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Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan Feb 5‚ 2013 Drug Abuse and Treatment Centers in Afghanistan The issue of narcotic drugs production and consumption is worsening in Afghanistan which threatens the security and hinders the development. Afghanistan as the largest opium-producing country in the world produces 94% of the world’s opiates and thus has 920‚000 illicit drug users. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and many other major organizations such as International Narcotics and
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