Essays Tagged: "Detoxification"

Detoxification Ward

Detoxification WardWhat is a place that smells like fear and tastes like sadness? A hospital. Hospit ... is when my sister had her first child in a hospital, but my mother was in and out of the place for detoxification. The surroundings, the scent, the sight, and what I heard were not my ideal hospital ... been a place of sadness, such as this one.My sister, Jessica, and I went to visit our mother in the detoxification ward at Overlook Hospital in North Plainfield, New Jersey. I cannot remember the date ...

(3 pages) 22 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

A simple English essay about teen drug abuse and what parents can do.

ause they no longer have a high tolerance (MEDLINEplus 32)(Aspen Achievment Academy para. 2)(DHS 6).Detoxification centers and sober living are currently the most widely used and effective treatments. ...

(4 pages) 138 2 3.2 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Paradigm case study -introduction and discussion

have been changed to maintain confidentiality (Papalia et al. 1998).Paradigm Case StudyThe Medical Detoxification unit is an inpatient facility administered by the Regional Health Service. It is an e ... ven bed tertiary unit for people with alcohol and drug dependencies. To assist this process medical detoxification provides tools utilising harm minimisation philosophy. This philosophy encompasses ha ...

(12 pages) 225 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Harlem Project

providing each client with therapy that is tailored to their individual needs. Our services include detoxification, inpatient treatment, day treatment, intensive out patient programs, aftercare and th ...

(5 pages) 47 0 4.7 Aug/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

EVIDENCE BASED MENTAL HEALTH CARE: Alternative therapies in Drug Detoxification

of the Placement Experience:The placement area that I was assigned to is a Tier 3 community opiate detoxification team (National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, 2002), aimed at those members o ... ng as well as assessments for those suited to an inpatient detox unit, a three-week community based detoxification regime off opiates such as heroin and methadone using Subutex or Lofexedine as well a ...

(15 pages) 179 0 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Homelessness in America

homes for the homeless, like Habitat for Humanity. This nation also needs more drug counseling and detoxification centers, to help those that are addicted to hard drugs like crack and heroin.There ar ... resources like federal aid, counseling and more slots in mental homes and more drug counseling and detoxification centers nation wide, this nation could take charge and show the rest of the world tha ...

(11 pages) 99 0 2.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Harm Minimisation Has Been An Overwhelming Success In Australia. It Would Be Equally So In Other Countries

mand reduction are raising the price of alcohol though increased taxation, drug education programs, detoxification and rehabilitation programs for dependent users (Gossop 1998).Harm reduction strategi ...

(8 pages) 12 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Different Commentators Define 'Harm Reduction' And 'Harm Minimisation' In Different Ways.

mand reduction are raising the price of alcohol though increased taxation, drug education programs, detoxification and rehabilitation programs for dependent users (Gossop 1998).Harm reduction strategi ...

(8 pages) 18 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Treatment Options Paper

inal conclusion on entering into one of the programs (modalities) available, which include "medical detoxification, partial hospitalization, residential treatment, intensive outpatient program (a.k.a. ... (individual, group, couple, or family)," allopathic, and homeopathic (HelpGuide, 2001-2008).Medical detoxification "is a medically supervised drug detox in a residential treatment center that has expe ...

(14 pages) 146 0 5.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology