The struggles of refugee life often lead to mental health disorders and substance abuse. ... Refugee families experience trauma due to the unstable environment in their home countries but there are also a myriad of events that happen even after they are displaced that could also be considered traumatic, and have an adverse effect on refuge individuals and families (Weine et al, 2004). ... Primary care institutions, including clinics, schools, and community organizations, because of their closeness to the family living environment, are often in a privileged position to detect problems in trauma...

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The addict must decide to distance himself from his previous addictive environment, lifestyle and friends who also engage in self-harming behaviour. 3. ... Ideally, a strong support system of family and friends will create a positive, safe, healthy, nurturing and protective environment for the individual. 6. ... Therefore it is essential that wherever possible, the addict remove himself from any environment associated with his abusive behaviour. ... An addict who independently adopts this attitude and is determined to avoid high-risk environments and people has a better chance to avoid relap...

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Two serious health issues that plague America are drug addiction and Type 1 diabetes. Both of these issues are causing the nation substantial distribution of resources in revenue, health care personnel and treatment resources. ... There are also long-term health consequences from heavy smoking, binge drinking, heavy marijuana use and cocaine use. ... Environment factors also seem to play a role. ... However, there is no definite evidence linking Type 1 diabetics to the environment (About.com). ...

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Normal early childhood development is a very important social determinant of health. ... In turn, complications in early childhood development can have a lifelong effect on emotional and social health and well-being. ... A general consensus is that parental alcoholism or alcohol abuse creates a chaotic family environment that has lasting negative effects on children (Logue, Sher, Frensch, 1992). ... Obviously, intimate relationships are crucial to adult mental, emotional, and social health. ... There is some pressure on health practitioners to help protect these children, and society, from...

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An example of a community run facility is Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont (HCRS). This private, non-profit community mental health center has 520 employees in 14 offices throughout Windham and Windsor counties. ... At present, the Indian and Health Services division of the Department of Health and Human Services is hiring a substance abuse counselor who will be relocated to a Cherokee reservation in North Carolina (United States Office of Personnel Management 2004). ... According to SAMHSA's (2002) National Survey on Drug Use & Health, "An estimated 22.0 m...

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Risk factors occur in the environment that the person is subjected to and can alter the ability to adapt to that environment. ... These situations create a continuously stressful environment where many find themselves resorting to illegal acts to survive. ... For example, San Francisco is faced with a large budget deficit and has decided to cut thirty seven billion from the Health Department's budget. ... First, we need to create a preemptive support program where we encourage young adults to seek education, job training, medical health and psychological support. ... Programs need to ...

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I believe that drugs should continue to be banned because it helps enforce fair competition, protect the health of the athletes and will continue to have a positive effect on Australian society and world sports. ... It has become knowledge that drugs do have adverse effect on health. ... It should also be pointed out the damaging health effects of drug consumption. ... We are also protecting the health of our athletes, who can then clearly strive for success by natural processes. Through their example young Australians will follow in their footsteps to accomplish their own personal goals and ...

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Cannabis is highly addictive, causes both physical and mental health problems, and can also affect relationships and careers within your life. ... Many people who become addicted are to do so within their college years due to the college environment, freedom, and lack of structure. ... This regular use of marijuana, especially among teenagers, leads to a variety of possibilities of mental health problems. ... Whether you begin to revolve your everyday life around the drug, weaken family relationships, or take away a possible chance at a good career down the road, or even obtain a mental health...

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The results of the experiment showed that the monozygotic twins who showed signs or were already addicted to a certain drug was a result from the environment they lived in. It was also shown that the dizygotic twins showed the opposite correlation to the monozygotic twins and were therefore not abusive of drugs because of their living environment (Pedersen, 1981)7. ... In conclusion, converging the evidence of all the studies previously mentioned, it is shown that their living environment causes one's addiction to drugs. ... Drug addiction doesn't only affect one's physical h...

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When alcohol is made more readily available to an individual, such as in a college environment, it increases the risk that person will drink excessively (Ewing 173). ... Personal relationships can be torn apart, jobs are frequently lost, and the health of a person deteriorates when an individual begins to rely on a drink to get by (Burgess 16). ... The prolonged use of large amounts of alcohol without an adequate diet may cause serious liver damage, such as "cirrhosis of the liver" (Secretary of health 47). It has been estimated that 10% of all alcoholic persons develop cirrhosis, a disease ch...

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Their is a marked improvement in general health status - even among those patients who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus - following admission to methadone treatment programs. ... The placement of these elements alone allow methadone programs to operate on a positive note in many communities where black market opiate addictions, and their negative social health/economical implications may be rapidly spreading. ... Leaving many addicts whom have been caught in the perils of addiction for years, having little/if any social abilities, lost in a un-excepting social environm...

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Drug-related problems cost U.S. companies more than $102 billion each year in lost productivity, accidents, employee turnover, increased health care costs, and absenteeism. ... A social issue that has been rising in courts across the country since the 1970's, greatly effecting the workplace environment, is sexual harassment. ... In conclusion, the social issues of today are being incorporated into the workplace environment.. ...

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Drug use has devastating consequences such as health problems and addiction which has necessitated government agencies and national drug societies to put up measures meant to help drug addicts conquer their addiction state and enable them to lead normal lives. ... Such a person will find it hard living purely in the environment and is likely to relapse due to peer pressure alone. It is thus recommended that their environment be analyzed too and tools and resources put in place to treat the whole family [Bar07]. ... There should also be mechanisms put in place to help in after-treatment, their...

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Yet this attraction is deceptive ; the habitual flight into drug induced euphoria inevitably culminates in the failure to acquire the developmental tasks necessary for future psychological health. ... The challenge to the community and society is to create norms that decrease the likelihood of adverse health outcomes for adolescents and promote and facilitate opportunities for adolescents to choose healthier and safer options for experimentations. ... Most of the models include factors at the individual levels, the level of significant relationships with oth...

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It is not a lifestyle choice; it's a disease and impairment of the body's health that prevents a person from functioning normally. ... Finding what is "normal" tends to be hard because of the unpredictable environment they"re raised in. ... Clearly having a disease, she knew she would damage the health of her children. ...

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Now, examine this same situation in a mental health setting, one could only imagine that if the counselor handled a client with the same level of rudeness, the result could be a nervous breakdown, increased substance abuse, and in the worst case scenario suicide. ... In any environment where those who are ill are subject to anything less than superior client service, serious ramification can occur. ... Lysowski (2013) citing the Ohio Department of Health (2011) reports that one in four abusers die each day from a drug overdose. ... Lysowski (2013) affirms that the world of treatment looks quit...

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In studies done throughout the United States by prestigious organizations such as National Academy Press, Connecticut Law Review, Journal of Public Health and the California State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse show there is little evidence the decriminalization of marijuana leads to an increase in usage. ... By making it available only in controlled environments you are shielding people from potentially dangerous situations. ...

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Drug testing verifies the honesty of the employee and helps create a safe working environment. ... Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) helps people facing emotional, health, financial or substance abuse problems that can affect job performance. ...

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The more users become integrated in an environment where, apart from cannabis, hard drugs can also be obtained, the greater the chances they will experiment with harder drugs.6 Marijuana legalization proponents use the example of the Netherlands in their favor. ... According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ...

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Michael Jellinek, who as the head of child psychiatry at Harvard is effectively Biederman's boss, and Peter Jensen, who recently stepped down as director of child and adolescent research of the National Institutes of Mental Health, have both publicly worried whether physicians' prescribing practices for children have outstripped their scientific substantiation. ... As Gordon begins to talk about the influences from family she makes a point to talk about how children will be more easily influenced to act in the same ways of there frequent environments, such as families, peers and frie...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducts an annual National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) that questions numerous people living households about their drug and alcohol use and their involvement in crimes. ...

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