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    Child Abuse Research Paper Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children‚ but abuse is defined by the effect on the child‚ not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical‚ sexual‚ and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child‚ and the worse the behavior is‚ the more unimaginable

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    treatment efficacy by providing a clear means for tracking progress toward established goals. The therapist has several purposes in developing a treatment plan for a client with a substance use disorder. First and foremost‚ the therapist wants to motivate and empower clients to make beneficial changes in their substance use behaviors. To that end‚ the therapist structures the task at hand by helping the client identify a range of available options‚ and by encouraging the client to make informed choices

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    The other day I woke ever so confused. I did not see anything confusing. I was simply just confused as to what had happened yesterday. I got up out of bed and stumbled to the kitchen. I was walking around and go myself a bowl a bowl of cereal. As I sat down at the counter‚ I began to think about what had happened yesterday. Once I had finished my cereal‚ I walked to the sink and set the bowl in there. I than looked out the window and everything started to come back to me. I seen a electric scooter

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    One of the most drugs abuse is that a patient may negatively addicted to drug. Most of people believe that stop using drugs is simple thing that anyone can do it but in fact withdrawal drugs in really hard challenge that needs hard effort and will power because drugs change the behavior that lead to force the body to abuse using drug. Drug abuse information clearly states drug abuse is an extreme desire to obtain‚ and use‚ increasing amounts of one or more substances. The first question to answer

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    CDC‚ approximately half of these deaths are caused from prescription opioids. The two main strategies recommended by the CDC to decrease opioid abuse and addiction is to improve the accuracy of prescriptions and prevent the misuse of these prescriptions once they are given. Reducing the rate of opioid prescriptions is a critical step in preventing abuse and overdose. The vast majority of opioid addictions begin with prescription painkillers‚ which have a flourishing market currently - opioid sales

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    Throughout the country‚ the abuse of heroin and prescription drugs is nearing epidemic proportions. If you or your loved one suffer from an addiction to any of these or other substances while living in California‚ you have no doubt recognized that access to dangerous opiate based drugs has increased while the current pricing structure continues to make these drugs all the more affordable. That’s a dangerous combination when you consider the highly addictive nature of opium. Considering a Sacramento

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    can arise. Stress from the job can create problems in the work field as well as in the personal and social areas of one’s life. Job stress can also tie into fatigue and alcohol and/or drug abuse. Fatigue gives us tired cops and tired cops can be a bad thing in the criminal justice field. Alcohol and drug abuse plagues cops everywhere. There are many suggestions for programs and treatment ideas for these problems that plague our law enforcement officers. Job stress can’t be avoided in any job field

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    Child abuse                     Physical abuse is a form of a neglect it is when the parents or care givers are not providing the necessary needs of the child; such as not providing shelter for the child‚ and not supervising the child.  Physical abuse is also defined as a physical force or violence’s that results in bodily injuries or pain. With the lack of supervision a child will be free to do whatever they want because they feel that there are no consequences. A child needs to have

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    For presenting problems one and two Johnny needs to identify the triggers that started his substance abuse‚ as well as use these triggers to assist in maintaining sobriety and curbing cravings. Ecological theory was applied to these problems. “Ecology means….study of the living conditions of organisms in interaction with each other and with the surroundings…social work…has expressed purpose in fostering healthy and independent transactions between persons and their environment” (Ungar‚ 2002‚ p. 481)

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    believes it is in need of a substance when it actually may be harmful. This disease is chronic so even if one is able to quit‚ they may relapse and take the drug again. When drugs are taken for the first time it creates a release of dopa-mine or other pleasure creating chemicals. These chemicals are released due to the direct effect on the nerve cells‚ these nerve cells transmit information directly to the brain. By doing so the brain searches for more of the substance in order to create the same

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