This study found that a majority of women of domestic violence with substance abusing partners experienced abuse during substance use by their partners. Participants shared their experiences of fear, pain, anxiety, family trauma, and being violently abused by a substance-abusing partner. With the ...
Healthy Connections Director Jennifer Mills Price said the goal of Healthy Connections, a coalition of 20 community agencies, is that every infant and toddler being raised in families struggling with substance use disorder will have the opportunity to build a healthy brain through ...
Specifically, major environmental stimuli—or “turning points”—can affect the trajectory of an individual life-course for the better or worse. Incarceration has been identified as a consequential, later-in-life turning point that might redirect the life-course (Laub & Sampson, 2003), although ...
Drinking smoking and drug use among young people have been major concerns at individual the family and national levels. The concern is based on a growing number of young users while amount and variety of substance increases and the access to them by adolescent and youth is not adequately control...
The ACE-J questionnaire consisted of a total of 15 items (parental death, parental divorce, mental illness in the household, substance abuse in the household, mother treated violently, physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, childhood poverty, overcontrol [“I always ...
A convenience sample of 183 gay, lesbian, and bisexual participants who were previously treated in substance abuse programs, completed surveys that included questions regarding their honesty and openness about their sexual orientation with counselors and clients in their programs, as well as in their ...
Domestic Violence in College Students: The Effects of Male Dominance and Substance Abuseabusive partnerdomestic relationshipdomestic violencemale dominancesubstance abuseThis chapter explores domestic violence in college students. It also examines the paradigm of male dominance and substance abuse. Using ...
Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions: Effects of Drug Prices and Health Insurance MandatesDrug PricesTreatment AdmissionsParity InsuranceThough data from broad household-based surveys indicate that illicit drug use in the U.S. has been steadily declining over the past two decades, more objective...
Examines the main and interactive effects of parental psychopathology and maltreatment on child behavior. Assessment of child aggression, delinquency and social withdrawal; Increase in externalized behavior problems in offspring of schizophrenic parents from maltreating families; Diathesis-stress model of psych...
Common side effects may include: paraesthesia (numbness or tingling sensation), dizziness, dysgeusia (abnormal taste), trouble sleeping, constipation, and dry mouth. Qsymia is classified as a CIV controlled substance due to the possibility of dependence (addiction) or abuse.Stimulant...