Being that drug abuse and addiction have so many dimensions and disrupt, this is not so simple to treat. ... The use of fear, anxiety, sexual deviations, and other maladaptive behaviors are learned and can be unlearned. ... There is various evidence of genetic basis for alcohol abuse. Biological parents who have alcohol-abuse problems are more prone to abuse alcohol - even if they are adopted and are raised by people who do not abuse alcohol (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2000a). ... Many health professionals share the viewpoint that clinical psychologists tend to view substance abuse as ...

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Everyday children are suffering from being sexually abused in almost every place on earth. Statistics have shown that one in five girls and one in nine boys are sexually abused daily. ... Both researches believe that children that have been sexually abused as a child have been found to have symptoms of depression and substance abuse. ... Researchers believe that substance abuse is more suitable for peoplee that have been sexually abused. ... They believed that most child sexual abuse happened in low income families. ...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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All drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana, primarily affect the brain's limbic system. ... Besides hurting their bodies and their brains many drug abusers damage their children as well. ... The most important fact is that, children whose parent's abuse alcohol or drugs are almost three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused; and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. ... Here are some ways parents are encouraged to help their children stay clear of drug abuse. ... Examples of failed or dead Drug abusers will make kids...

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Fewer than one in four high school seniors are current marijuana users" (National Institute on Drug Abuse). ... Since marijuana affects your judgment and decision making, its use can lead to risky sexual behavior, resulting in exposure to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, so I guess you can call that a long-term effect since there is no cure for HIV or AIDS. ... "no matter how many shirts or caps you see printed with a marijuana leaf, or how many groups sing about it, remember this: you don't have to use marijuana just because you think everybody else is doing it" (National Insti...

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As a little girl, one of my relatives endured a great deal of physical and sexual abuse by another relative. ... The looming memory of her early childhood abuse was just the beginning however. ... Sexual abuse, especially as a young, innocent youth, is one of the most traumatic events a human being can experience. ... The other events that were triggered by this, such as her abusive boyfriend and drug abuse, may have been avoided entirely if the pain from the memories of the sexual abuse had been lessened. ... If my relative only knew of her sexual abuse as a distant memory instead of a ment...

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Eighty percent of all child abuse and mistreatment cases are related to parental substance abuse (Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse). Substance abuse is the overindulgence or dependence on an addictive substance. ... (Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau). ... Children from households where one or both parents repeatedly abuse drugs are at an increased risk to be emotionally, sexually or physically abused than those who aren't. ... (Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect). ...

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Adolescents in treatment for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) have high rates of comorbidity with other substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, impulse control disorders, mood disorders, sleep disorder or sexual dysfunctions (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2005). ... "Youth prefer easy access and treatments that do not remove them from their primary home or academic settings far from the traditional adult treatments in rehabilitation clinics (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, n.d.). ... Also group or individual cognitive-behavioral therapy...

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These issues encompass discrimination, substance abuse, and sexual harassment. ... Another social issue that is rising within the workplace is the use and abuse of substances within the workplace. ... Substance use and abuse within the workplace has decreased a lot over the years, and will continue to do so, if companies are able to continue education and prevention programs. ... In order to keep lawsuits, and therefor extreme money losses, to a minimum due to sexual harassment many companies have established a sexual harassment policy and offer sexual harassment prevention programs. ... ...

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Frontier life was overwhelmed with problems like prostitution, gambling, alcohol and drug abuse. ... The prison system is plagued with prostitution, gambling, alcohol and drug abuse. Homosexual inmates" trade sexual favors with other inmates. ...

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Abusers typically report feeling a "rush" or pleasurable sensation. ... The sharing of injection equipment or fluids can cause users to contract severe blood-borne viruses, which they can then pass on to their sexual partners and children. Liver and kidney disease can also be a problem caused by heroin abuse. ... Treatment options for heroin abusers are behavioral therapies and medications. ... According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, several suburban and rural communities near Chicago and St. ...

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Alcohol and Drugs First, and most common risk factor of adolescent development, is alcohol and drug abuse. ... Drugs are the second most common severe substance abused by young adults. ... In terms of tobacco, cigarettes are the most popular substance abused by teenagers and young people. ... Very often, delinquent crimes are related to alcohol or drug abuse. ... In devastating majority of these cases, runaways are caused by unsatisfactory family situation, sexual abuse from a family member, or unsettlement with parental rules. ...

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Hopkins often uses intense themes such as drug addiction, mental illness, abuse, and prostitution to hold the attention of her readers. ... In her novels Crank and Identical, Hopkins explores the lives of teens dealing with addiction, suicide, abuse and mental illness, allowing adolescent readers to understand and emotionally connect to themselves and others. ... Identical tackles the topic of sexual abuse, telling the story two twins, one of whom is being molested by her father. ... Kaeleigh, the victim of the father's abuse, tells of her father's actions with a compassionate tone...

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However, this is not true to everybody, some people think any sort of sexually related actions is called sex. ... Therefore, they are more sexually active than any other age group, and engage in sex more often than adults. ... Alongside it the Philippines face a common but very severe issue the country, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STDs). ... Basically, teenagers that are more exposed to a bad environment is more likely to engage in substance abuse. The increase in substance abuse around the world has made it very common in our country, the Philippines, and it is one of the many issues that M...

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Through accounts from battered and formerly schoolboys, alcohol violence is now understood to include a range of behaviors - physical, sexual, economic, emotional and psychological abuse. ... Such an approach identifies battering either as a symptom of alcohol abuse or addiction or as an addiction itself. ... Alcoholism treatment alone will address the abuse adequately. Weak people are "co-dependent" and thus contribute to the continuation of abuse. ... In the cases in which battered people report that the level of physical abuse decreases, they often report a corresponding increase in ot...

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Steroids can also be used to treat some medical conditions such as asthma, but more than 80% of the abusers of this drug use it illegally. ... This drug also causes damage to the liver, heart, kidneys and sexual organs....

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Each driver has to qualify in order to work for SCAT.A prospective SCAT driver is to: sign a declaration prior to employment that lists all convictions related to drug abuse, substance abuse, or sexual offenses; all crimes of violence for which convicted; all convictions of felonies in the last five years; and their driver's license cannot have been suspended or revoked in the last five years. ... Disqualification for drivers is any prior convictions of sexual offenses, drug related, or substance abuse, or crimes of violence. ...

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Further, he mistakes being in love with sexual intimacy, further skewing his vision of reality. ... She lives in the same area of the city that Orpheus does; a run down slum home to homeless and drug abusers. ... The action between Persephone and Orpheus is ostensibly to get Orpheus to solicit Persephone's (sexual) services, so she wants to keep Orpheus in his state of mind that love exists. ... Orpheus gets the companionship that he craves, possibly because he mistakes intimacy with sexual intimacy. ...

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Although their use was once mainly for medicinal purposes, the abuse of drugs for recreational purposes has taken a stronghold on today's society [ CITATION The02 l 1033 ]. With the rise in drug abuse has come new methods and combinations of using the drugs. ... This pretense of feeling more sober than one actually is increases the likelihood of events involving a state of intoxication such as car accidents or sexual victims, of happening. ... Cocaine is a drug with an extremely high potential for addiction and abuse. ...

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Despite the fact that it is illegal, heroin accounts for 90% of the opiate abuse in the United States. Heroin is a Schedule 1 drug under the Federal Controlled Substances Act because of its high abuse potential and the lack of any acceptance medical use. ... After using heroin, feelings of pain, hunger or sexual urges are diminished. ...

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People like me would argue that while there may be fewer tax dollars going towards our legal system, the amount going towards substance abuse and rehab programs would be substantially greater. ... With all of these things being legal we tend to abuse them, especially here in the United States. ... It has been found that it can greatly impair your judgment, lead to cancer, kills brain cells, and impairs sexual performance. ...

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