I recently saw a young 18-year-old female in my clinic who was seeking pain medications for abdominal pain. Her urine pregnancy test was positive. The moment I told her the results‚ the patient was in tears. She broke down and told me that she was addicted to opiate pain medications. She was suffering from severe withdrawal symptoms and did not know what to do. She said that her father left the family when she was 9 and her mother died from an overdose last year. She did not have a job‚ nor had
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without recent advances in medicine. With that being said‚ their wounds are much more difficult and expensive to treat than any other previous generation of veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that the cost for providing medical care and disability for returning veterans is between $589 billion and $984 billion. (Lifetime Cost of Treating Latest Generation of Veterans Higher than Predicted) Over 300‚000 of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from psychological wounds such as Post-traumatic
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Case Review i Case Review II Sharon Lawson Ethical and Legal Aspects of Health Services‚ HEA 203 Dr. Christine Connolly December 6‚ 2012 Case Review ii Abstract Being hired as a new administrator for Gotham City Medical Center which mainly focus on mental health issues comes with a host of task. The inpatient and outpatient services are housed in separate buildings on the same campus which caused problems by the center during file recording. After an audit conducted by the
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Arizona process regarding mental health admissions and the petition process Enter Name Here Karen L. Jones‚ RN‚ MSN/ed‚ BSN Psych. Clinical There are different routes to inpatient mental health treatment in Arizona. My goal is to explore the different rationales for voluntary verses involuntary admissions and also the petition process for our state. Mental health patients treated on an inpatient basis are either admitted under a voluntary admission or an involuntary
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The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States‚ directly operating programs in more than 85 sites‚ and providing services via contract program and DMH staff at approximately 300 sites co-located with other County departments‚ schools‚ courts and other organizations. The goals are to: Provide quality‚ strength based mental health services to children. Help children achieve success at school and in the community. Strengthen
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with mental health issues. Almost every family is touched by the issue of mental health. In California‚ either someone from the family suffers from mental health issues‚ or someone very close to family does. The state of California therefore has to overcome tremendous spending to bear with the consequences of this growing number of mental health issues. As a result‚ the state came up with proposition known as proposition 63 aimed at helping California overcome the colossal charges that mental health
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Assessment of Mental Health Facility: PORT Human Services (Kinston Outpatient Clinic) Tonya Robinson COUN 5336 Substance abuse seems to be one of the rising epidemics in Eastern North Carolina. There have been an increased number of arrests being made as a result of drug and substance abuse. With limited resources‚ PORT Human Services is one of the very few and one of the most successful organizations to provide mental health and substance abuse services in eastern North Carolina. PORT
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Mental illness assessment in Pottstown‚ PA Located only 20 miles southwest of Reading‚ PA on the Schuylkill River you will find Pottstown is an area densely populated with mental illness. According to the last national census held in 2010‚ Pottstown Borough is composed of about 75 % Caucasians‚ 17 % African American and about 8 % Hispanics. Population in 2014 was about 22‚684 with 10‚988 males and 11‚ 696 females (US Census‚ 2010). The community is mostly composed of lower-middle-class income families
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In the movie Platoon‚ the author‚ Oliver Stone‚ tells us a story about an American soldier in Vietnam during the war. The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. Even though the story is fictional‚ he keeps it really realistic and the more close possible to what was reality in Vietnam. He shows how that war was hell for the soldiers we sent there and also for the local population. Oliver Stone produced Platoon to show his disapproval of the war in Vietnam‚ because that war
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Health Care Legal Case There are many current legal issues surrounding health care in the United States. The primary one that is taking most people’s interests is the legalities of the Health Care Reform Act; however‚ I want to concentrate on an issue that is very controversial and sensitive for many‚ forced or involuntary hospitalizations. Involuntary hospitalizations are a common occurrence in the United States among mentally unstable individuals and also in a unique case‚ a pregnant female. Many
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