not utilized by the general public and were thereby, poorly staffed, dirty and contaminated. (Sultz). Hospital Care is the most efficient way to detect chronical illness. They have all the machine and technology to be able to identify and find a disease. They can store files, that can pinpoint patients records, so that they can be care for their patients. Historical development Medicine has a history spanning many thousands of years and specialized establishment for treating the sick have
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different types of alcohol. Alcohol became an integral part of European culture. We need to understand the harmful effects of alcohol, because it can be fatal. "Alcoholism is a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences
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Assignment 1 Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services (CRCSI) is a community mental health facility with three locations in Fayette County, PA. They are a 501 ©, nonprofit organization. They provide comprehensive behavioral health outpatient services in a professional, and compassionate manner to promote wellness and improve the quality of life of children/adolescents, young adults, adults and seniors (age 65 or older). The agency offers programs for persons with co-occurring mental and substance
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behavior. These tests revealed a new disease – chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In fact, 87 out of 91 former NFL players tested positive for CTE (Breslow, 2015; The New York Times, 2015). The most scary part of CTE is that there is no way to properly diagnosis or treat it. Current brain scanning technology is not advance enough to determine more than a mild head injury (Mayo Clinic, 2014). This is little comfort to those who have lost their lives to this disease or for those who are living with
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"downers", heroin, and other opiates. -Short-term: Intoxication with slurred speech, staggering, poor judgment and reflexes; large doses may cause unconsciousness or death; confusion leading to more drugs without realizing the consequences. -Long-term: Addiction is common; you must have the drug to function; obtaining drugs becomes the main function of life; tolerance requiring greater amounts of the drugs to get the same if any effect. Stopping causes extreme withdrawal including: anxiety, convulsions,
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH 1) How To Be Happy Being Single The life that we are bestowed with is truly a miracle. This precise miracle gets overshadowed with the contradictions that we live with. Contradictions like, the young want to be older and the old want to be young again; the dark want to be fair and the fair want to darken; the short want to be tall and the tall ones have their own problems. And just the same way, the single want to mingle and the ones with partners want to break free. Isn't
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|PT3 |Faculty of Business Studies | | |F O R M | | | | |TMA Cover Sheet | | | |
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David Garcia SOC 240 Professor Ortiz Homelessness and Deviance Homelessness is something that is widespread throughout the United States as well as many other parts of the world, some places being more severe than others. Regardless of where the place is, a stigma is placed on those who are homeless, often being labeled as deviant. Those who are homeless, unemployed, or those receiving welfare are often viewed as lazy, reluctant to work, and possibly a drug addict. Also, assumptions are often
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saying, “Our Health is our Wealth.” However, not many know the true definition of health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 1948), “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” There are many factors that contribute to health either positively or negatively; this is called the determinants of health. The determinants of health can be divided into biomedical or biological conditions; which may include hereditary
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development of human beings and human behaviors. As you already know, I work for Stella Maris, a drug and alcohol treatment facility. We talk a lot about cognitive development and the concerns we have with our clients as it relates to their disease of addiction. We need to know what changes in intellectual abilities, mental activities, and behaviors through which knowledge of the world is attained. This requires an understanding of us as counselors, to know what the variety of factors are including
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