Substance abuse emotions

Personnel Fitness T/F Personnel were fit for duty. (Includes physical/mental/emotional states and addresses preexisting physical conditions, substance abuse, and other related concerns.)... 

Numerous studies found that childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse also predisposes victims of such abuse to the development of depression in adulthood (e.g., McCauley et ah, 1997). The risk for depression increases with early onset and severity of the abuse as well as with the experience of multiple types of abuse. In addition, child abuse is related to an array of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD (e.g., Kendler et ah, 2000). Other disorders related to childhood abuse include substance abuse, eating disorders, dissociation, and so-... 

Secondary insomnia related to a known organic factor may occur in conjunction with a physical illness (but not the person s emotional reaction to the illness), psychoactive substance abuse, or certain medications. Secondary insomnia may also be related to another mental disorder. 

While many things about marijuana remain controversial, even the most liberal supporters consider its use by adolescents harmful. It is possible that the increased popularity of marijuana is cyclical, and that this drug will become less popular as new information about its effects on the body is discovered. More is known about marijuana today than was known when many parents smoked it as teens. Some of the most important effects are noted by Joseph Califano, president of the National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University Marijuana can savage short-term memory and adversely affect motor skills. It inhibits social and emotional development at the time when such skills and development are most critical for teens. There are very real dangers attached to marijuana s frequent use. 

Stimulants have a high potential for abuse and must be used with caution in anyone with a current or past history of substance abuse or alcoholism or in emotionally unstable patients... 

If simple logic, however, does not win out, with parents holding fast to the limit they have set, the young substance abuser may resort to a more powerful kind of persuasion emotional extortionusing the intense expression of emotionality to get parents to relent. 

A tactic used by many children (and by some adults), emotional extortion is particularly common with young substance abusers who feel driven to get their way at any cost. To stop this manipulation, parents must refuse to play along. They must resist the pull of their own emotional vulnerabil-... 

PET and SPECT have revealed abnormalities in dementia, movement disorders, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Molecular processes also are related to aggressiveness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, sociability, and selfishness. 

Youth prevention services are targeted to prevent youth behavioral and mental problems in advance or to address them in the early stages of development. Specifically, it is known that effective prevention services can reduce delinquency, aggression, violence, bullying, and substance abuse in the youth population (Chilenski et al. 2007). Increased effectiveness of prevention services could potentially lower the risk of substance abuse (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) among youths through better social and emotional health. 

Concerns that disproportionate numbers of children with serious emotional disturbance were being removed from their communities led to the development of systems of care in the 1980s. In 1992, Congress passed the Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program which supported the development of these systems of care. A system of care is in or near the home and community. In fiilly developed systems of care, local public and private organizations work in teams with families and children to both plan and implement individualized services for each child s physical, emotional, social, educational, and family needs. Teams include family advocates and representatives fi om mental health, health, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, vocational rehabilitation, recreation, substance abuse, and other services. Systems of care have supported the use of mental health clinicians in schools, school- and community-based wraparound planning and services, and student support services (Woodruff et al., 1999). 

CCMHP is the current federal program providing coordinated, community-based, family-centered, cultmally competent, accessible, and least restrictive services for children and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders accompanied by functional impairment. Development of these systems of care is based on the premise that the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families can be met in their home, school, and community environments (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1999). A variety of community agencies are involved, including mental health, child welfare, education, and juvenile justice. Funded service systems are tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents and include evaluation and diagnosis. 

Ferguson, H. (2005) Working with violence, the emotions and the pyscho-social dynamics of child protection reflections on the Victoria Climbie Case. Social Work Education 24, 7, 781-795. Forrester, D. (2000) Parental substance misuse and child protection in a British sample a survey of children on the Child Protection Register in an Inner London district office. Child Abuse Review 9, 235-246. 

The main difference between hungers and emotions has been that hungers are more obviously controlled by the deprivation or supply of specific concrete stimuli. Even so, hungers for specific objects are extensively influenced by learned processes called tastes, and thus have some of the cultural specificity typical of emotions. To develop a taste for yak butter or blubber you must leam to associate their fatty flavor with satisfaction to develop a taste for an abused substance, you must come to associate the chemical taste of alcohol or the disgust and nausea of heroin injection with the euphoria of the high. 

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