...needed for the organization to run effectively and in an ethical manner. For Riley’s Recovery Center I will be creating these as well as talking about the organizational culture, leadership and oversight. Opinions from board members and stakeholders will also be considered when creating these documents. The purpose of these documents is to serve as a guide to all involved in the organization. Riley’s Recovery Center is a nonprofit organization that helps addicts and alcoholics of all ages that reside within Washtenaw County. Riley’s Recovery center accepts insurance in order to receive treatment. If a client does not have insurance or their insurance company does not cover their treatment we have alternative sources for payment. Our organization works with the State of Michigan in order to find alternative sources of funding. The programs we offer cover all areas of sobriety. We have a detox center within our rehabilitation facility. Most of our clients check into the detox center before entering the inpatient Rehabilitation dorms because they are going through withdrawals. The Detox center allows our clients to be monitored by medical professionals. Our Rehabilitation dorm stay, ranges from one month to three months depending on the amount of help each individual needs. Within the Rehab dorm we offer group counseling and individual counseling as well as classes on sobriety. Riley’s Recovery also consists of transitional housing sites where our clients can opt to stay after...
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...discuss the AA group’s philosophical orientation to human development. While using the writer’s knowledge of therapeutic factors, the paper will analyze the group process and its stage of development. The paper will also discuss the approach of the leader, often called ‘trusted servants” or “secretary”. Finally, the paper will discuss the use of the reconstructive inventory steps of 4-10 and how the writer would work with a client who was seeing her in individual or family counseling. Alcoholics Anonymous has a well-defined recovery program that AA members have been following since the founding of the group (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2014). In 1939, the group published its basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as the Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2014). The Big Book explained AA’s philosophy and methods, the core of which is the now well-known Twelve Steps of recovery (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2014). The Twelve Steps are the core of the recovery program, which are based on the trial-and-error experience of early members of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2014). The Twelve Steps are not simply a set of tasks to be carried out (personal communication, September 30, 2014). They are a guide for living and being in the world, and, for many individuals, they become a way of life as well (personal communication, September 30, 2014). According to AA, members who make an earnest effort to follow these Steps and to apply them in daily living seem to get far more out of AA than do those members...
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...to address productivity, quality, safety and moral issues. Primary Problems Business -The Plant was not very profitable and usually only broke even. -The safety record was nearly double of the company average. -A high worker’s compensation is causing cost to increase for the company. -The plant was having a problem with drug and alcohol abuse with employees on and off the job site. -Having to comply with labor union laws. Personal -Is it ethically right to send someone undercover to expose employees’ wrong doings? -Is this process a breach of one’s personal privacy? -The personal difficulty facing management as well as career implications?- Ethical Dilemma -Could management discriminate between the sellers of hard drugs and the occasional marijuana and alcohol user? -Once an employee has recovered should the company reinstate them and if so, should they be allowed to the same production line as others? -Should the plant start doing random drug test to keep the employee honest? Reasoning The drug and alcohol program was not effective and needs to be modified by creating tougher consequences with more accountable rehab program. Also the relationship between management and Teamsters need to be more unified. Their decisions need to be more collectively agreed upon between with both sides. We rejected the idea of complete termination without a chance to go to rehab recovery program. The negative effects of the program are that it will be costly...
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...Drug Addiction Dina Michelle Wyas COM/156 9/22/2013 Serafin Roldan Addiction is a serious problem with people. Any person can be addicted to anything. Some people are addicted to food or TV, some can be addicted to working out or computer games. The worst addiction is substance abuse. When people start taking or using a substance, they become labeled as an addict. An addict becomes addicted to the drug and its dependency with their use of it. Addicts try not to let anything come in their way with their substance abuse. It effects their life and the people that love and care for them. Addicts need help, but will often deny they do. When an addict reaches out for help there are many programs that offer support and all usually start out with the twelve steps. Everyone agrees that addicts sometimes take drugs chiefly for pleasure and sometimes chiefly to escape withdrawal or other dysphoric states for example life stress. However, there are several major problems with hedonic/withdrawal theories as full explanations of drug addiction. (Robinson, T.E.,& Berridge, K.C.2003) When people start using drugs it usually results in three different stages. (Dr. Sack) The addict either starts by taking prescription drugs, participating in social drugs, or using drugs for self-medicating such as in the case of depression. When they go to the doctor for a pain, doctors will prescribe drugs to make their body feel better and the pain to go away. Many drug addicts get started through...
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...Twelve Step Program Unk Author1 1 Kaplan University Abstract This paper is about the twelve step program and the lasting affect it has on individuals who suffer from addiction. The twelve step program is a treatment program that holds people accountable for their actions to overcome their addiction and head down the road to recovery. This paper also explains an organization that I want to observe who implement the twelve step program among other things like a phase based treatment program. A phase based treatment program, is a structured program set up for individuals who recently were released from prison or jail. The program is intense and structured leaving the offenders accountable for their own actions, progress, and success. Once the offender has completed all their phases successfully they are up for graduation, where participation in their alumni is encouraged. Twelve Step Program Twelve step programs or self-help groups are designed to help in the treatment and recovery of addiction and are highly effective with a lasting success rate. The main focus of self-help groups are to bring people together who suffer from addiction and provide an emotional support system along with valuable information. Self-help groups are great for individuals to be able to relate to something or someone, because they may not get that opportunity out in their personal life. They get pressured into using, pressured into stopping, given ultimatums, etc. and all they really...
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...the message of Jesus is to get involved as the Father has gotten involved with humanity, the rabbi cautions a more conservative approach. The rabbi wants us merely to keep from harming others. Jesus wants us to act, not just react. • Jesus further puts his own special seal on this maxim by stating the two greatest commandments: love God and love one another. To love someone is to seek to do good to them, and certainly, at the very least, to avoid doing them evil. • What is Christian Moral Life? • Misconceptions 1. Reduced to avoidance of sin 2. Reduced to a series of don’ts and dire punishment if we fail • What is Christian Moral Life? • Positive and Fuller Meaning 1. Moral theology should start with God and God’s love - JP II (Veritatis Splendor) : The moral life is a response to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of God’s love - God always acts first: the moral life begins with God’s grace; we respond in freedom to our experience of God - If the moral life is a response to God, then our image of God is crucial because how we imagine God would affect how we respond to Him morally (e.g. the Parable of the Prodigal Son) Parable of the...
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...and authentication systems are now available, but users must be willing to install them. TJX had also neglected to install firewalls and data encryption on many of the computers using the wireless network, and didn’t properly install another layer of security software it had purchased. TJX acknowledged in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it transmitted credit card data to banks without encryption, violating credit card company guidelines. TJX also retained cardholder data in its systems much longer than stipulated by industry rules for storing such data. The tools and technologies that could have been used to fix the weaknesses are some of the following: General controls govern the design, security, and use of computer programs and the security of data files in general throughout the organization’s information technology infrastructure. On the whole, general controls apply to all computerized applications and consist of a combination of hardware, software, and manual procedures that create an overall control environment. A risk assessment determines the level of risk to the firm if a specific activity or process is not properly controlled. Not all risks can be anticipated and measured, but most businesses will be able to acquire some understanding of the risks they face. Business...
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...This book serves as the basic text for AA. The texting includes chapters on the following: Bill’s story, solutions to alcoholism, information about alcoholism, agnostics, how AA works, information on working with others, information for regarding family involvement, and planning a vision for yourself. Proceeding that information are success stories from individual who have successfully recovered from alcoholism. After publishing the “Big Book”, the founders of AA felt as though the book was not enough. They felt as though AA needs a specific program for recovery. There were steps that have been talked about, but there had been nothing written-out and labeled as the steps for recovery. From there was the formulation of what we know of two “The 12-Step...
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...12 step reflection paper 12 Steps to recovery is it for you? The 12 steps to recovery is used as an aid with other therapies not just by its self. It is not for everyone, every addict needs a unique/different approach to recovery, and the approach that will work best for you is dependent on your individual beliefs, needs and circumstances. In my opinion Faith in a higher power is one of the most important things needed in the traditional 12-step process. So therefore if you do not believe in any kind of higher power the 12 step programs are probably not for you. If your faith is important to you, you may need to find a program that will allow you to really embrace your beliefs. For many people, a traditional 12-step approach works for them, but others need to focus on a more tangible way of focusing on their recovery. The 12-Steps are more than just a way for some people to stay sober. They’re a map for living life as a whole being in their interpretation. They consist of the universal spiritual principles like tell the truth, treat others as you’d want to be treated, monitor your failures, apologize for them and make things amends if you can do so without hurting others. The Steps provide tools for living a full, satisfying, meaningful life. These steps mean admission of alcoholism, it’s a personality analysis and catharsis, adjustment to personal relations, dependence upon some higher power and working with other alcoholics to better themselves together. Step...
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...Drug abuse and addiction is often viewed as a social, moral, or criminal issue. However, it is much more than that; it is one of the most debilitating and costly public health problems facing our society today. The reason for its categorization as a public health problem is that drug abuse is not isolated in its impact. It does not only impact the individual abuser, but impacts society as a whole (Compton, 2005). The epidemic of drug abuse has been identified as a leading cause of many medical problems including cardiovascular disease, cancer, AIDS, hepatitis, and mental disorders. Equally daunting, if not more, are the social problems raised by drug abuse, such as drugged driving and motor vehicle crashes, violence and homicides, spouse and...
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...Overeaters Anonymous Diet - A Weight Loss Program with a Difference Overeaters Anonymous Diet for weight loss offers a program with a spiritual angle that has proved productive in the recovery from compulsive overeating. The Overeaters Anonymous Diet uses the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA in your weight loss efforts. The OA conducts worldwide meetings provide a mutual fellowship of experience, strength and hope to each other where members respect one another's anonymity. The OA charges no dues or fees as it is a self-supporting process through member contributions. Overeaters Anonymous - A Diet Plan with a Difference Overeaters Anonymous is not just about dieting and...
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...interests and moderately supported woman suffrage. First incumbent U.S. senator and first newspaper publisher to become president. Teapot Dome Scandal-bribery incident that further destroyed public reputation of Harding administration Calvin Coolidge-republican lawyer, conduct during boston police strike of 1919 gave him reputation of a man of decisive action. Soon after elected as 29th president to succeed Harding in 1923, gained reputation as a small-government conservative, and also a man who said very little. Herbert Hoover-republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929, promising Americans prosperity and attempted to deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. “rugged individualism”-moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that promotes the exercise of one’s goals and desires and so independence and self-reliance. Republican Decade-The decade after WWI where there were 3 Republican presidents: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Laissez-faire-the type of economy where government does not interfere because the businesses are supposed to know what’s best for the economy; businesses do their own thing and government does not interfere. Great Crash-book written by John Kenneth Galbraith depicting the economic lead up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Argues that the market crash was able to be seen by the rampant speculation in the stock market,...
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...- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. Tradition 2 - For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. Tradition 3 -The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. Tradition 4 - Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole. Tradition 5 - Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. Tradition 6 - An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. Tradition 7 - Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside...
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...considered dually diagnosed, I will explain the health problems that can occur from using alcohol and the effects alcohol has on the brain and body, I will explain how alcohol impacts depression, and last, I will explain the specific problems that exist in treating the dually diagnosed individual. An individual who has any combination of a mental disorder (anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder) and addiction (drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling) is considered to be dual diagnosed. (Foundations Recovery Network, 1995) In one article, Paljärvi (2009) states “experimental studies have found that alcohol intoxication can produce even severe depressive symptoms during heavy drinking episodes.” Becker (2012) states in his article, “Alcohol has anxiety-reducing properties and can relieve stress, while at the same time acting as a stressor and activating the bodies stress response systems.” According to Evans and Sullivan (2001), individuals with a history of alcohol dependence, especially those early in recovery and those who are older, show significant cognitive impairments. Individuals with major depression also have significant cognitive deficits and the two together cause double the difficulties in thinking and learning. The most helpful support for a dually-diagnosed client is family and friends because they provide empathy and are non-judgmental of the client. Along with support from family and friends, it is also important to provide the proper medical and...
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...Nicole DeMase Emerging Standards of Care Paper December 15, 2014 Donna Rose Nur/531 Emerging Standards of Care Paper A growing problem in the United States is the increase in health disparities amongst minorities regardless that the United States is a multicultural country. This problem is due to the poor quality and accessibility of health care services. As the population of diversity continues to grow rapidly so does the importance of cultural competence in healthcare. Cultural competence is a set of behaviors, attitudes, and skills that enables nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations ("Cultural Competence", 2014). Organizations must have the capacity to value diversity, conduct self-assessment, manage the dynamics of difference, institutionalize cultural knowledge and adapt to the diversity and the cultural context of the communities they serve. The Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) stated that inequities in service delivery and care in the health care system are associated with discrimination, and a lack of culturally competent practices, including a lack of cultural awareness and sensitivity by health care providers (Upsher, n.d). Substance abuse is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences ("The Science Of Drug Abuse And Addiction: The Basics", 2014). This paper will discuss and define the appropriateness of competent...
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