Category: Abuse

  • Substance Abuse: Media Representation of Drug Abusers

    The war on drugs is not over yet and it is unlikely to be finished in the recent future. Americans are bombarded by messages about negative effects of substance abuse. Media provide a variety of stories about violent crimes associated with drug abuse. Officials keep talking about the necessity to launch programs aimed at promulgating…

  • Preventing Fraud, Waste and Abuse

    The topic of the present week of the course is devoted to the illegal issues that medical institutions face with their personnel. The materials given out in the present section are mainly devoted to giving a more detailed definition of fraud, waste, and abuse that are the main realizations of dishonesty from the part of…

  • Abuse of Using Drug Medicine in UAE

    In contemporary society drugs has become one of the main threats. There is no use denying the fact that more and more people all over the world become drug addicted. That is why it is possible to call this process very dangerous. It threats people all over the world. With this in mind, it is…

  • SBIRT Screening for Opioid Abuse

    Table of Contents Introduction Explanation of the Diagram Metrics and Areas of Improvements Summary References SBIRT Screening for Opioid Abuse Diagram. Introduction Workflow can be defined as a well-structured, orchestrated, and repeated pattern of nursing activity. Since the steps of workflow are highly predictable, it is easy to present the described operation visually – for…

  • Vaping Products Abuse and Health Harms

    Table of Contents Introduction Identifying Research Conversation, Search Strategy, and Project Challenges Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Several decades ago, the problem of smoking challenged millions of people around the globe, causing a variety of diseases such as cancer, heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and stroke. However, at the beginning of the 21st century,…

  • The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center

    The substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is an agency association aimed at working towards the improvements of quality and accessibility of the best treatment as well as prevention of abusing substances and mental related problems. This paper focuses deeply on the principles which are applied by SAMHSA in the provision of mental health…

  • Reporting the Act of Sexual Abuse Against Children

    Table of Contents Introduction Rationale Discussion Stakeholders Nurses District Specifications Conclusion References Introduction The given paper will address the 218th legislature of the State of New Jersey of Assembly no. 850, which upgrades the penalty for failing to report the act of sexual abuse against children. It states that if a person fails to report…

  • Substance Abuse in Elderly Patients in Rural Areas

    The problem of substance abuse has been observed in the rural setting among aging adults for a while, mostly due to the lack of a sustainable strategy for prescribing opioid medications and the absence of financial resources among rural residents to purchase advanced medicine that does not allow for rapid dependency development (Hash, Jurkowski, &…

  • Alcohol & Substance Abuse and Medication Treatment

    Adapting Treatment to Patient Problems O’Brien’s research on adapting treatment to the patient problem is purely descriptive. Descriptive research tends to describe the situation by adding knowledge to what is already known about the subject. Also, descriptive research uses methodologies that add up to the already known elements in a positive perspective. Hence, the recommendations…

  • Substance Abuse and Community Nursing

    Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion References Introduction Substance dependence and abuse are now the most frequent adjustment disorders not only in the general population but especially among young adults and adolescents. Some national drug policies assert reducing drug use, while the Australian drug policy supports the reduction of the harms of use (Beyers…