In some cases fathers are the bread winners and mothers are the ones who take care of the home and family. ... [Womenshealth.org] Drug abuse influences the function of many families, their life at home can be turned into pure chaos. ... Even though more women are working outside the home they are still the primary house work provider. The losses in the home are equally as damaging as at work. This is much harder for single mothers who have to handle their job, home, and children while being on drugs. ...

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One can truly sense the hopefulness, grasping the loss of family and ardently desire a new life for the boys. ... The gangs in the Homes focused mainly on drugs and their gang related activities. ... Drugs were a part of the boys every day life inside their home and brutal drugs wars surrounded them outside the home. ... Residents of the homes felt stuck in the middle between the drug gangs and the police. ... One can see the inequities to America's poor. ...

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One can truly sense the hopefulness, grasping the loss of family and ardently desire a new life for the boys. ... The gangs in the Homes focused mainly on drugs and their gang related activities. ... Drugs were a part of the boys every day life inside their home and brutal drugs wars surrounded them outside the home. ... Residents of the homes felt stuck in the middle between the drug gangs and the police. ... One can see the inequities to America's poor. ...

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Anxiety can form while the child worries constantly about the situation at home or even fear that their parent will become injured, sick or the possibility of domestic violence. ... Parents may give the child the message that there is a terrible secret at home. The child feels ashamed and does not invite friends home and/or is afraid to ask anyone for help. ... The results can be devastating. ... Many times, alcoholics come from an abusive home themselves and have a previous history of alcoholism in the family. ...

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When I interviewed Zeeshan, I wanted to know what initiates teen violence and how it can be stopped. ... I followed up on her response by asking her to tell me some ways these behaviours can be changed. ... It needs to change in the school and home. It all starts in the home." ... My secondary sources informed me that teens tend to use drugs because of peer pressure, depression, problems at home, social trouble and rebellion (Craig 146). ...

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Due to the war on drugs, State and Federal prisons can no longer afford to house violent criminals for appropriate amounts of time. ... The more money that government receives is more money that they can put towards the education of how drugs effect the human mind and body. ... The war on drugs often subjects law-abiding citizens to arrest, search, and seizure for what they do in the privacy of their own homes. ... In the 1980's the Supreme Court allowed kidnapping of foreign citizens who were suspected of drug related crime, allowed the use of low-flying aircraft to survey neighborh...

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Alcohol can be bought and consumed in small or large quantities. ... This means that they can usually hold down a job and do not drink until they are home or off work for the day and usually drink more on the weekends. ... The withdrawal from heroin is painful and it takes a few days if the abuser is at home and not in a proper treatment facility. ... If a person is in a treatment facility, rather than at their home, withdrawal can be achieved quicker because they are given small doses of other drugs to counteract these symptoms and are under constant supervision by medical professionals to m...

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Presenting Problem Michelle is currently homeless because of her choosing to move out of her adopted parent home at 18 years old. ... The circumstance in which the problem is currently manifested is home, employment and counseling. ... Michelle further states "one day she would love to live in a world where everyone can be who they are with no judgment or backlash". ... Michelle parents states that they had to help Michelle get counseling services because of her interaction at home. Michelle's ODD caused her to feel as if she co-existed with her parents and siblings at home. ...

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When my brother finally came home, he told me he sold some cocaine to people. ... It finally turned dark around 9 p.m., and Joey came up with the idea that we can steal from cars to make some money. ... I finally agreed with him that it is a way that we can make money. ... We were robbing from cars for about two hours so we decided that we should take the stuff we had taken and go home. ... When I got home, I talked to my parents for a short amount of time but then went quickly to bed. ...

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The governing body of the United States needs to take a hard look at the problems here at home and infuse more resources into programs that help the mentally ill, the jobless, the homeless, and the drug abusers whom can be just as large a threat to national security as terrorism. ... Risk factors occur in the environment that the person is subjected to and can alter the ability to adapt to that environment. ... In the article entitled "Young, Jobless, Hopeless," Bob Herbert talks about the rising percentage of young Americans who may have no job and no place to call home. ... One such risk...

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If we take this simple but true idea, how is a person carrying a baggie of plant material to ingest at home violating anyone else's rights, even indirectly? ... There are many problems with the government thinking it can protect people from themselves, and their own choices. One is that people do a significant amount of harmful things in their homes each day, not just to themselves, but to their families. ... No one has the right to tell you, I, or anyone else what they can or can not do with their own bodies. Once we give up that right, there is no longer a line to be drawn saying what t...

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Each disorder can and needs to be diagnosed independently of each other, but treated at the same time in order for full recovery (SAMHSA, 2002). ... She reports that as far back as she can remember drugs and alcohol have played a part in most family functions. She recalls growing up going from home to home and being abused, both mentally and physically, by members of those households, while her mother was out using. ... She has developed a dependency on methamphetamine and has recognized the impact it has had on her life function, both at work and home. ... Even though the ASI does not scre...

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This epidemic we will discuss today will touch many homes wreaking havoc and destruction. ... There are different kinds of alcoholics, from a "fall down drunk" to the everyday housewife who "copes" with her life through alcohol in the privacy of her own home. ... LSD "trips" can last for a long period of time. ... Flashbacks can occur for months after the initial LSD use. ... The most alarming fact is this drug no longer is done just at raves and parties, it is done in the privacy of one's own home. ...

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So we all started walking home because there was no one to come get us. ... Steve would come home late almost every night. My mother would wait up for him and when he got home they would have a fight. ... Drugs can take anything good like a happy family and tear it to shreds. ... But at least things did not get worse than what they were because sometimes drugs can do a lot more harm, like killing people. ...

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• Spends a lot of time alone in their room or away from home. ... • There are many good books that you can get • Your local law enforcement agencies have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to local agencies that can help. ... There are certain things to look for when doing this, some of those things are, spends a lot of time alone in their room or away from home, changes in personal grooming habits, withdraws from family activities and contact, and demonstrates a lack of responsibility. ... There are many things parents can do to ...

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Racial profiling can be a used as a basis for racist police offers to arrest more minorities and this is documented very often. ... In the book he gives the example of Samuel Elijah the black construction worker who was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike while driving home from a job site in Willingboro. ... The book Driving While Black also talks about the incident where a black family who was driving from Illinois back to their home in Washington D.C. ... The DEA taught state troopers some common identifying signs of drug couriers: nervousness; conflicting information about origin and dest...

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Rosa Lee`s father was an alcoholic and there were times when young Roas Lee had to pick him up drunk from a bar and he would lean on her all the way home. ... She tried to get away from drugs and was on a methadone programm, but being around drugs all the time, living close to oil joints, having dealers on every corner of the neighborhood and having her children bringing drugs at home and selling them, it was almost impossible for her to stay away from them. ... When Rosa Lees brought home her costumers, they used to have sex in the same bed Patty was sleeping in as a little child. ......

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We citizens take for granted luxuries that people of other countries can only dream. ... The government should not be allowed to prosecute non-violent offenders for consensual crimes committed in their own homes, thus complying with the U.S. ... If the government believes it can win the war on drugs then it has failed to provide hard proof. Should drugs be legalized, we can expect several immediate results. ... The current drug laws makes criminals out of millions of otherwise law-abiding people who choose to use drugs in the privacy of their homes. ...

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No one can tell when life will throw them a curve, and because of this, development of any kind varies for the individual. ... Stress can be found in adolescents everyday activity. ... A parent can create boundaries without being overly forceful. ... As an adolescent, everyone knows that being too fat or too skinny can absolutely torture a person internally. ... Why go through the hassle of trying to make friends when you can have a dependency. ...

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It can grow between 13 and 18 feet tall, and have one of two flowers, male and female. ... It is found growing in homes, on farms, on public lands, and in secluded areas. ... Instead of drug addicts shoplifting, mugging, breaking into homes, and stealing from others to pay outrageous prices for marijuana from dealers they could support their habit by simply holding an honest, decent paying job. ...

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If it's your first time attending an AA or NA meeting you can learn from others. You can see what helps them and what doesn't help them. You can even see where someone has started and where they are right now. ... Bill said that his dad would come home from work and automatically start drinking. ... I grew up in a broken home. ...

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You have promised your daughter that as soon as it stops raining you will take her to the park, push her on the swings and spin her as fast as you can on the merry-go-round. ... Some treatments call for medication that can be as much as $1000 per pill. ... When you consider the fact that someone must pay for their treatment one can understand the large financial strain on the Healthcare system. ... Syringe exchange program use can be an important component in reducing the spread of blood-borne infectious diseases among high-risk injection drug users.... Rather than supporting the 'zero to...

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There are several physical problems than can come from use of performance enhancing drugs. ... In a sport such as football, the added size of a lineman can mean a stronger offense or defense. ... For example in baseball, as stated by a fan, "he and other fans still considered Roger Maris, a North Dakota native, to be the single-season home run champ with 61", even though he had not ever used steroids (Dick Patrick, 2005, paragraph 2). ... Losing is the worst thing you can ever do. ... There are many ways not mentioned that enhancement drugs can effect your life. ...

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No one factor can determine who will use drugs and who will not. ... Three alternative solutions for this problem can be considered. Teens can help teens their same age. ... Teens spend more time at school then at home; therefore, they see more of what goes on at school than at hoe. ... More laws can be created to help solve the drug problem. ...

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We can no longer afford to ignore, ostracize, or punish nurses who have this progressive and fatal disease. ... The addict can only return to normal life when only the drinking or drug use stops completely. ... It can include prescriptions from staff or emergency physicians, medications from patients who bring medications from home, forged prescriptions, or diversion from the patients or from the unit's drug supply. ... Drugs can also be signed out for patients who have been transferred or discharged, backdating the records. ... If a nurse agrees to participate in the program, she/...

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