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Queering Addiction
<p>Much has been written about the subject of addiction, but very little has been written from a queer feminist standpoint. Most of the work available concerning addiction is aimed primarily at a clinical audience, those interested in treating people with addictions. Most non-clinical work is aimed …
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Addiction Services for Parents with Addiction in Regina, Saskatchewan
… question that guides this thesis is: are the addiction services in Regina and area meeting the needs of parents with addictions and their families in Regina and area? The goal was to research the treatment services available to parents with substance abuse problems, and to determine whether …
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Addiction as Archetype: storytelling in drug addiction and recovery. Bad Glue for Broken Bones: an addiction memoir.
… drug addicted individual and their recovery from addiction. It reflects on how social narratives about addiction have shaped the treatment of addicted individuals, and the addicted individual's view of their self and their condition. The thesis argues that contemporary addiction research is …
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Addiction as an Excuse
… with figuring out under what conditions addiction serves as an excuse from blame. The first chapter argues that addicts have diminished control over their drug use. Chapter 2 develops the ethical framework that I will use to approach the question. Chapter 3 argues that addiction does not …
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CaMKIIbeta in Pain and Addiction
… and comes with major side effects like addiction, underscoring the critical need to identify innovative therapeutic targets for its treatment. Ca2+/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) represents a promising target as previous studies show the involvement of CaMKII and one of …
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Bridging the Gap: Addiction Recovery
… surroundings while healing the individual. The addiction crisis in the United States is deadlier than ever. The number of overdoses, hospitalizations, and relapses is at an all-time high. Rehabilitation centers, sober housing, and transitional living programs are failing to provide the mental …
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Gambling addiction and life meaning
… been studied extensively. One proposed cause for addiction, which has been used in studying alcohol and drug abuse, is a lack of meaning in the addict's life. However, a causal link between life meaning and gambling addiction has not yet been examined. This study used a sample of 355 normal people …
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Internet addiction and social satisfaction
… study was to determine the effects of Internet addiction on a participant's level of satisfaction with their social life. Participants were gathered from both Rowan University and the Internet at large (n = 122) and asked to complete an online survey. The survey contained criteria questions for …
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Predictors of Addiction Treatment Attrition
… of persons aged 12 or older). Unfortunately, addiction treatment completion rates remain relatively low, looming around 50%. In order for treatment programs to be more effective, it is imperative that risk factors for attrition are identified, and that programs strive to combat these risks …
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The Effect of Social Media Addiction on Romantic Relationship Outcomes: Factors Associated with Social Media Addiction
… that are linked with SNSs compulsive use (addiction) in both college and non-college populations. The results showed that romantic disengagement was positively linked with Facebook addiction, and that relationship commitment alone was not enough to protect committed partners against …
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Beauty and the treatment of addiction
Drug and alcohol addiction are highly destructive, reaping significant damage on society, on addicts, and on their families and friends. The past century has seen a vast increase in the treatment of addiction, but these methods have failure rates of 50% or greater. This work seeks an alternative …
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
… the relationship between attachment and heroin addiction, while using a constructivist-interpretative epistemological position to examine how individuals' early life experiences may shape and influence them through later life. In this study, a clinical sample of six individuals stabilised on a …
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Smoking Addiction Scale for Pregnant Women
… evidence for the construct validity of a Smoking Addiction Index (SAI) for pregnant women. The scale was designed to behaviorally measure the level of addiction to smoking among pregnant women. The study sample consisted of 311 pregnant women who had participated in a smoking cessation …
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Efficacy of Addiction Treatment in a Correctional Setting for Female Offenders as Measured by the Addiction Severity Index
… what extent improvement following treatment for addiction was evident, and if treatment seemed causative in that outcome, for incarcerated female addicts. This study also explored the question of which treatment modality seemed most effective-- an education-only group, a comprehensive long-term …
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