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Assessment of Environmental Perceptions and Behavior Changes in Residentsof a Therapeutic Community for Drug Addicts
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Predicting Rehabilitated or Relapsed Status of Malay Drug Addicts in Singapore: The Role of Familial, Individual, Religious, and Social Support Factors
The implications of the findings were discussed at several levels--policy makers, program developers, social work intervention, and future research.
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Pusat rehabilitasi narkoba di Batu: Tema arsitektur perilaku (hirarki human needs)
… fungsinya sebagai tempat rehabilitasi. ENGLISH: Drug Rehabilitation Center is a place of therapy for healing and recovery of the drug addicts. Drug rehabilitation center buildings are designed due to the increasing number of drug addicts while the place for the healing and rehabilitation are …
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Drug Addicted Patients – Oral Health and Management // Наркозависими пациенти – орално здраве и мениджмънт
Drugs are chemicals that affect a person's physical, mental and social functions by altering them in various ways. Drug use and abuse have increased in recent years and are socially significant worldwide. Increasingly, various medical professionals are involved in preventive and therapeutic …
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Therapeutic Communities: A Family-Centered Approach to Drug Addiction
… being made to help persons who are abusing drugs. Therapeutic communities are drug-free residential treatment centers for drug addicts. They are committed to a treatment plan based on the belief that drug addiction is a human rather than a chemical dilemma and that the family milieu is the …
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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
… was to analyse the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s main impact, this research …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… self-destruction, or disease associated with drug addicts and alcoholics. Historically speaking, literary and cultural representations of alcoholics and drug users from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries produce distinct photonegatives of normative American values. The …
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Live and let die: opiate overdose deaths in Chicago
… In addition, we found females and or non-married drug addicts, even if they were Black, lived shorter lives than others in this study. Extended longevity among opiate addicts might indicate the existence of resistance factors to death by opiate overdose. Investigating these factors might …
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An Analysis of the Potential Fiscal and Health Benefits of the Legalisation of the Sale of Marijuana in South Africa
… to aid in rehabilitation for alcoholics and drug addicts and the potential for a new field of research. The health concerns explored are abuse from adolescents, possibility of addiction in adults, and concerns regarding an increase in the consumption of junk foods. The marijuana market …
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Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s
This study explores how the representation of the drug-addict in Hollywood cinema has changed due to governmental and studio policy change, social shifts of opinion, and economic structure. This discussion and exploration primarily focuses upon narrative Hollywood film as this industry has a long …
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From Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to Substance Use Disorder: Perspectives from Recovering Addicts
… included adults with ADHD who are recovering drug addicts. They were asked to complete a questionnaire about their perceptions and the trajectory of their personal experience.</p> <p>Results of the current study indicated that adults who had been diagnosed with ADHD as children, or found out …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
… has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan media, …
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Three Essays on Crime
… relationship between property crime and minimum drug consumption requirements. I use a crime model with an exogenous income distribution to determine the government's optimal drug supply control in the presence of drug addicts who might be induced to commit property crime to satisfy their minimum …
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Effects of MPTP, MPP(+) and Adreno-Medullin on Dopamine Metabolism in the Rat Corpus Striatum
… (MPTP), a contaminant on illicit narcotic drugs, causes parkinsonism symptoms in drug addicts. Also, systemic injections of very low doses of MPTP in non-human primates produces selective destruction of the nigrostriatal dopamine neuron and severe motor impairments. That peripheral …
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SENSING CHARACTERISTICS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF PLANT TISSUE POLYPHENOLASE SENSORS
… crest tumour and the stupor characteristics of drug addicts. It is oxidised in the presence of polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme commonly found in plant tissues. Its kinetics was studied by monitoring the concentration of the reaction product, 2,3-dihydroindole-5,6 quinone, at 470 nm in a …
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High Spirits - With an accompanying exegesis - Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns
… Through periods of great deprivation, including drug addiction and the birth of two children, Rose is in constant battle with the law and bureaucracy. From a religious rebel to a spiritual seeker, from a bikie's moll to a folksinging star, Rose's fortunes fluctuate wildly. She has relationships …
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An exploratory study of heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment
… of program outcomes. This study explored heroin addicts' perceptions of methadone treatment.
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Treatment Effects Related to EEG-Biofeedback for Crack Cocaine Dependency: Changes in Personality and Attentional Variables
… Cocaine is now considered to be the most common drug problem of patients entering treatment for drug abuse. To date, only one controlled study has been published that researched alpha-theta neurofeedback in the treatment of "crack" cocaine addiction. The present study was an extension of a 4-year …
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