of University of Phoenix 7 The aging population continues to grown as the baby boomers reach retirement age and this affects the healthcare industry tremendously. The need for specialists, more testing, medications, and skilled healthcare is rising along with this population. This causes the cost of healthcare to increase as well as the demand on healthcare workers. This summary will discuss how the aging population affects the area in which I live including:
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Chapter 19: Substance Use and Disability The chapter on Substance Use and Disability in the Marini and Stebnicki textbook was a brief discussion of the various drugs categories and the comorbidity of drug use and mental/physical disability. The occurrence of two separate clinical diagnoses is referred to as “dual diagnosis”. As used in this chapter, the term dual-diagnosis includes the occurrence of a physical, mental, or intellectual disability along with the presence of a substance use disorder
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brain. Both the mind and the body can become addicted to substances and have altering, often painful, effects on the body if there is withdrawal. Even some substances, though legal, such as prescriptions are often abused the most. The following will address the different types of substances, including prescription drugs, their effects and withdrawal symptoms. Psychology and Physiology of Addiction “The brain is greatly affected by the disease of addiction. It's the kind of addiction that targets
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addiction, Sarah would go from doctor to doctor requesting the medication. Eventually, the addiction became so out of control that she needed more pills than the doctors were willing to prescribe her. At this point, if she just stopped taking the medication she would go into physical withdrawals similar to heroin. To get the quantity of medication she needed on a daily basis, she started calling in to the pharmacy her own prescriptions. She had once worked in a doctors’ office so she knew the information
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There is a dramatic impact on children and their families once the child is diagnosised and labeled as ADHD. The medical industry and pharmaceutical companies have been benefiting from the diagnosis of child and adults with ADHD with the prescriptions of medication and overutilization. ADHD can be considered the medicalization of deviance when the diagnosis removes responsibility from society and the individual who has deviant behavior. This attitude continues the perpetual production of perpetrators
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Substance Abuse Amy L. Teoli HCA/250 December 21, 2014 George Decker Substance Abuse Addiction is a complicated disease that affects the behavior and functions of the brain. It occurs when a person becomes dependent on a drug or medication. This could include legal and illegal drugs, prescription drugs, and alcohol. Substance abuse not only affects individuals, it also affects their friends, family, and other people around them. In 2012, there was an estimated 23.1 million Americans
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on elder abuse was very disturbing in the depiction of how the elderly just like children are vulnerable to abuse, neglect and exploitation. An elder abuser can be a family member, neighbor, caregiver or stranger (“An Age for Justice”, 2010). In chapter seven, of Aging Maters, Hooyman, Kawamoto, and Kiyak (2016), defines elder abuse as any form of physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse, which is inflicted on an individual. Neglect by a caregiver is also considered as a form of abuse, as well
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neighborhoods, by which is called the dealers. This is a process that has no end, because once one batch or shipment of drugs is distributed, there is already another on its way into America, or being made in America. First, let us look at the prescription drug trafficking, which is at an epidemic level and a major concern in America right now. There are illegitimate doctors who are acting as almost legal drug dealers. They are supplying the entire
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C.) Scope and limitation D.) Definition of terms * CHAPTER II DISCUSSION A.) How does depression increase the risk for suicide? B.) Why do men commit suicide more often than women do? C.) How do alcohol and other drug abuse increase the risk for suicide? D.) How suicide goes from ideas to action? E.) How to prevent suicide? * CHAPTER III SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I Introduction:
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Moore, and Elizabeth C. Katz. "Effects Of Gender And Motivations On Perceptions Of Nonmedical Use Of Prescription Stimulants." Journal Of American College Health 62.4 (2014): 255-262. ERIC. Web. 25 July 2016. The use of non medical use prescription stimulant (NMUPS) is more associated with college students, who use this to implement their ability to stay awake and study. Mrs. Lookatch Samantha J. and her colleagues did a
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