There were quite a few questions regarding their intake of drugs and their response to these drugs for example their moods, sleep pattern and appetite. ... The questions consisted of the history of ecstasy use and any other drug use, how the drug/drugs were taken, if there was any physical or psychological issues or side effects and lastly if there were any other issues by using drugs for example relationship, financial and occupational issues (Topp et al, 1999). ... A total of sixty-four individuals participated in the study - 18 current heavy users for recreational purposes, 15 heavy uses fo...

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PERSONAL THEORY: Drugs that help with chronic illnesses and common diseases are beneficial to mankind, but drugs that change us as a person is where science should draw the line. ... When people start using drugs that alter their personality (i.e. caffeine, marijuana, alcohol, etc.), they become just like other people who use those drugs causing their personalities to become almost identical. ... Mind-altering drugs have been on speculation since they were introduced into the pharmaceutical world. ... However, the drug became a cosmetic pharmacology, which "involves using drugs not to cur...

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Although this is not easy, having control over emotions can help a person gain greater control over their inner problems as well. ... Just as the feelings you are experiencing can control your thoughts and actions to some extent, so you can control your feelings by controlling thoughts and actions. This causes us to have a greater control over feelings"(247). ... Psychotherapy is a treatment that requires that the doctor must first do an assessment, which should include sexual history, assessment of drug utilization, past, and current medical conditions, and a reproductive life history. ... T...

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Case Study Shelley is an eighteen year old, living rough with a history of self-harm and drug abuse. ... She finally moved out of her mother's house and ever since she has been stealing to support her drug habit. ... Additionally, prolonged drug use, as evident in Shelley's case, can lead to a variety of functional impairments, including diminished workplace productivity and cognitive impairments that persist into adulthood (Dietz & Dunn, 2014). ... In Shelley's case, problems such as self-harm, drug abuse, stealing and non-compliance are presented simultaneously. ... Distress...

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Another study that was done by Morrison and Stewart found that twenty percent compared to five percent of controls had a parent with a childhood history of hyperactive behavior. ... Oculomotor symptoms found in AD/HD could be caused by damage anywhere in the system that provides direct or indirect cortical control over eye movements. ... Hundreds of studies conducted indicate that stimulants (most commonly used), antidepressants, and clonidine (drug used to treat high blood pressure) can be very helpful for AD/HD. ... The only uses approved by the FDA for these drugs are AD/HD and narcolepsy. ...

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His negative behavior began at the age of five, beginning with a shoplifting experience, which led to a path of crime, drug use and social system abuse. ... Also I believe that had there been a more thorough attempt to diagnose and address the environmental factors, my brother's behavior could have been modified to remove or control its more negative characteristics. ... His negative behavior began at the age of five, beginning with a shoplifting experience, which led to a path of crime, drug use and social system abuse. ... Also I believe that had there been a more thorough attempt t...

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"The intervention group exhibited larger MMR responses to temporal structure violations in the music condition compared with the control group in both the auditory and prefrontal cortical regions" (5). This, basically, says that babies in the experimental group, given music, showed better brain activity than the controlled group. There were three hypotheses with this study: "that the 1-mo music intervention designed to help infants learn a specific temporal structure in music (i.e., triple meter) would result in a larger neural response (MMR) in the intervention group to viola...

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A common metaphor David Glenn uses in his essay "Divided Attention " would be of a night-club bouncer as controlled attention, keeping unneeded information from getting to the working-memory. Glenn also states: "[P]eople who differ in working-memory-capacity differ in other things is that higher-working-capacity people are simply better able to control their attention " (Glenn, 4). ... When one thinks about addiction, what might come to mind is a drug addict, alcoholic, or even the addiction to gambling. ... This 15.1% incidence may be compared with 6.2% of student respondents who were impair...

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Sociologists have now found "psychological tools", such as mind-altering drugs, that allow physicians to better control undesirable human behavior (Agger 35). These drugs were not available when there were men like "Wild Bill" on The Green Mile. ...

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"Religious involvement greatly decreases drug use, delinquency, and premarital sex, and increases self-control for all age groups. In a 1985 study of girls, 9 to 17, less than 10 percent of those who attended religious services weekly reported drug or alcohol use, compared to 38 percent overall."...

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Resocializaiton generally occurs because a person is plunged into a situation beyond their control. ... Failed resocializaiton occurs when the drug addict or murderer returns to society and their former way of thinking. ... In the case of the drug addict there is more and more need for after care. ...

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I always knew that one was a lot happier and laid back if they had high self-esteem, but I never knew that some of the benefits included: better sleep, less of a chance to conform to peer pressure, the ability to perform better in activities, less of a chance of abusing alcohol or drugs. ... I then began to read about internal and external locus of control, which seemed a bit confusing to me and it took a while for me to understand. I now know that they both deal with personal control, and I understand that external deals with outside forces possibly changing perception and that internal de...

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If a person struggling with an anxiety disorder worries excessively about many different things where they are unable to control their worry causing emotional distress and problems with school, relationships or work they probably have generalized anxiety disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). ... With 2%-3% of the population of adolescents and adults, this disorder is classified by unexpected and recurrent panic attacks that reaches its peak very quickly with symptoms such as sweating, increased heart rate, a choking feeling, dizziness, shaking or a fear of losing control, just to ...

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A person with OCD doesn't want to have these thoughts and finds them disturbing, but he or she can't control them. ... These drugs can cause side effects such as dry mouth, nausea and drowsiness. ... Then they are encouraged not to perform the rituals that usually help control their nervous feelings. ... While there is no cure to OCD, it is a controllable illness with the proper and appropriate treatment....

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Some specific forms result from brain injury due to physical trauma or drug effects. ... In the same way that people inherit genes that control height and eye color, biosocial theorists believe that antisocial behavior characteristics may be inherited (Siegel & Senna, 1991, p.96). ... Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1974, p. 2) identified a number of personality characteristics that characterize delinquents:  Self-assertiveness  Defiance  Extroversion  Suspicion  Defiance ...

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This almost always precludes media self-control by those who realize the long-term impact of their product. ... The Centers for Disease Control realizes the impact visual images and "news" has on potential behavior: their policy to suppress "copycat" suicides is to refrain from showing victims of suicides, provide no details about the technical aspects of the method chosen, and in no way to glorify suicide. ...

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Anyone from a suburban or rich neighborhood would look at my area in which I grew up and use words such as poverty, crime, drugs, and unemployment. ... In the book Invitation to Sociology, Peter Berger states, "Society not only controls our movements, but shapes our identity, our thought and our emotions. ...

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Anyone from a suburban or rich neighborhood would look at my area in which I grew up and use words such as poverty, crime, drugs, and unemployment. ... In the book Invitation to Sociology, Peter Berger states, "Society not only controls our movements, but shapes our identity, our thought and our emotions. ...

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However, when compared to the married controls the widowed women had a decrease in mortality at the four year mark below that of the married cohorts. ... Men also demonstrate an increase in alcoholism and drug use after a death (Stroebe &Stroebe;, 1983). ...

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The first of many assumptions are concerns whether one believes that the behaviors, any type of action, a person exhibits are produced by conscious choices and decisions, also known as free will, or "determined" by forces beyond ones control. ... This would include the use of various drugs by the mother, such as alcohol, tobacco, and crack, or some sort of physical abuse to the mother during the pregnancy. ...

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There are different levels of consciousness: non-conscious, handles information that is not represented in consciousness or memory but critical to bodily and mental activity, such as data needed to breath and control your heartbeat. ... People can also purposely alter their consciousness to avoid problems and escape reality by and when they engage in practices such as hypnosis, drugs, hallucinations and meditation. ...

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The stress-response is a much healthier option, whereby we bring awareness, the 'oxygen' of meditation and mindfulness to a stressful situation, which creates a space by which we have the time and capacity to pause, think calmly and then mindfully respond, rather than simply reacting unconsciously without control. ... With regards to physical pain, one can either apply 'Shamatha', a 'tuning-out' approach by which we temporarily move away from chronic or unbearable pain, the mind and body receive a much-needed break from the persistent discomfort without having to...

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With technology, specifically video games, many adults worry that the violence or negative social behaviors, such as drinking and drug use, shown in that media could influence a teenager. ... There are a set criteria of symptoms for internet addiction: obsessive thoughts about the internet, tolerance, diminished impulse control, inability to cease using the internet, and withdrawal (Davis). ...

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Attention - Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been recognized as a medical condition since the early 1900's. Yet, outside of the medical field, awareness of ADHD remained limited until the early 1990's. In fact, for a good many years, ADHD was called "minimal brain dysfunction" and was thoug...

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Understanding and Identifying ADHD Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorders of childhood. It affects 3 to 5 percent of all children, however, in many cases, problems continue through adolescence and adulthood. It has been re...

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