Drug Treatment
Essays

Dually Diagnosed African-American and Latino adolescents

Criminal Justice Administration: Corrections Officers

Researchers have known for a long time that drug abuse and prostitution frequently go hand in hand (Medrano, Hatch, Zule & Desmond, 2003; Yacoubian, Urbach, Larsen, Johnson & Peters, 2000; Young, Boyd, & Hubbell, 2000;…

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003.

Drug abuse and addiction have a long history dating back to the ancient Egyptians. Most advancements, however, have occurred in the past several years. This article details the acrimonious history of drug abuse and addiction in America and how the government has affected its history. The paper details the various organizations and agencies that have made contributions.

Schizophrenia affects millions of adults, and yet much about it still remains a mystery. This paper begins by describing schizophrenia from a historical perspective. This is followed by research related to the cause…

Determining why children and adolescents commit suicide is a concern that many individuals in the helping professions face. Obviously, they commit suicide because they are depressed in many instances, but it is also…

¶ … Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising" by Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise C. Gottfredson, Doris L. MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn D. Bushway

ADHD is a disorder that has been reported to affect up to 20% of school-age children. The disorder affects boys more frequently than girls at a rate of about 10 times higher incidence of ADD/ADHD diagnoses made for boys…

This paper examines the recent drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexican border and the attempts to combat it.