X_x asked:

Which technology became available during the 1980s?
A. The digital video recorder
B. The video cassette recorder
C. The personal digital assistant
D. The digital watch

2. Which of the following was a major focus of American social activism in the 1980s?
A. Gun control
B. Illiteracy
C. Drug abuse
D. Poverty

3. Which of the following statements describes a change in American society that took place during the 1980s?
A. Well-established Generation Xers saw a major increase in their income during in the 1980s.
B. In the 1980s, upper-class Americans began to earn more and more of the nation’s total income.
C. Investments in stocks and real estate decreased during this time period.
D. Economic growth of the 1980s helped low-income Americans the most.

4. Which of the following experienced the most growth in the retail industry in the 1980s?
A. Specialty stores that focused on selling only a few products or services.
B. Discount retailers that sold large quantities of goods at low prices.
C. Local stores that served the traditional needs of the target audience.
D. Manufacturers that focused on the rapid development of single products.

5. Which group reflected the growing political influence of senior citizens during the 1980s?
A. AARP
B. Band Aid
C. YAF
D. GLF

6. What new innovation in the television industry was created by Ted Turner in the 1980s?
A. MTV, which spurred music video creation and revolutionized the music industry
B. Digital video recorders, which allowed people to record television programs to watch at a later time.
C. The superstation, which was a television station that sold programming via satellite to cable companies nationwide.
D. Cable television, which offered numerous stations to customers instead of only three national networks, local stations, and public television.

7. Many young Americans, known as yuppies, from the baby boom generation focused on _____________ during the 1980s.
A. finishing their education
B. social activism
C. acquiring wealth
D. civil service

8. MADD, a group organized in the 1980s, focused on trying to change American society’s behavior in relation to
A. recreational drugs.
B. treatment of people with AIDS.
C. the plight of American farmers.
D. drunk driving.

9. What popular innovation based on military technology competed with movies and music as entertainment in the 1980s?
A. Animatronic toys
B. Video games
C. Rubik’s cube
D. Boom boxes

10. What invention changed the way people listened to music in the 1990s?
A. MP3 players
B. The Sony Walkman
C. Portable CD players
D. Cell phones with capability to download music
can someone answer them correctly please?

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jjamconcon asked:

?Dangerous Drug Board
?National Bureau of Investigation
?Philippine National Police
?Department of Education
?Department of Health
?NBI Treatment and Rehabilitation Center
?Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Network
?Ang Tahanan Treatment and Rehabilitation Center
?Philippine Mental Health Association

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Iman asked:

This is the topic for my english essay DUE TOMMOROW

Please – i need help

it can be a poem or anything — i just need some ideas to start my essay or basically ANYTHING TO HELP!!
Dear BATMAN :

Salam

I didn’t chose this topic, it was assigned and i agree with you, it is a hard subject. And you are right, i am DEFF not one to wait till the last minute, but everyone has their off days.. thanks for your help though =]

P.S –> it sounds as if you pay attention to my questions .. =] =] Well, atleast you know how i am (in terms of goals, and Islam and everything)

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quiet and humble asked:

Because I was once homeless myself, I am committed to helping others achieve personal growth and take an interest in their well-being. I find that helping others is rewarding for me in that as long as I can make a positive difference in someone’s life, I will know that I have contributed to that person’s efforts to change his or her life. As a result of my personal experience, I understand the constant despair and frustration experienced by those who find it challenging to cope with everyday life and its problems. I am also convinced that increasing one’s own sense of empowerment can make the difference between a future of despondency and one filled with hope.
I grew up in a single-parent household with my mother, with whom I frequently had arguments. When I found out I was going to have a baby, my relationship with my mother deteriorated further. There was too much family conflict, so I left. Eventually, however, I found myself homeless. Needless to say, being homeless was a constant struggle. Months later, I found a shelter on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, which was the worst part of the experience for me. Here I was- homeless, about to have a baby, with no money and no place to live. I felt alone and felt that nobody cared about my situation. At the shelter I met a social worker, and she helped ease my concerns. I told her of my situation with my mother and she was there for me when I needed someone to talk to. She encouraged me to resolve my conflict with my mother and go back home.
When I moved back home, I made a sincere effort to heal my relationship with my mother. Six months later, I found a job as a counselor working with adolescents who have experienced similar situations to mine. I was able to save enough money to move into my first apartment. From this experience, I learned that I had ability to persevere through my most challenging times. I developed empathy for people struggling with everyday problems and, most of all, I learned the importance of having the support of others. Overall, social workers make a remarkable difference in overcoming life’s challenges.
I am applying to the Master’s in Social Work Program because it is my goal to help others to embrace their inner potential in an effort to make a positive life transition. I began my preparation to achieve my personal goal while I worked at Harbor View Adolescent Center, a level-14 group home facility, as a youth counselor. My primary work responsibility was to serve as a positive role model for adolescents 12 to 18. The adolescents had varied backgrounds, such as being homeless and victims of physical and sexual abuse. Others had problems involving drug and alcohol abuse, depression, and severe behavioral problems. At times the position was exteremely stressful but I discovered that I had the ability to connect with the adolescents and develop strong emotional ties with them. I focused on several areas of treatment, including their social skills, coping skills, and independent living skills. My main ambition was to help them to build their self-esteem and improve their sense of security. Overall, my career goal is to help these individuals because I want to ensure that they have access to effective services, quality resources, and much-needed guidance.
My personal strengths that I bring to social work are: I am highly caring in regards to other individuals’ needs and feelings. I speak Spanish fluently and I can help meet the needs of Non-English speaking clients. I possess solid computer skills and I am very efficient with reports and documentation. I also received and outstanding award for being a “Change Leader 2008″ for improving the quality of the lives of residents that I serve, working diligently to ensure that their medical needs were met.
In conclusion, I want to give back to the community to help others to live their lives to their fullest potential. Through my own experiences, I believe that I can give others the support and guidance that they need to overcome life’s problems. I will work diligently to ensure that these individuals are given the opportunity to turn their lives around with empowering them to make right choices that can improve the quality of their lives. We need to take a stand to make sure that all individuals have the opportunity to thrive, grow, and live their lives to the fullest potential.

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Pucca asked:

We The People 0f the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, insure wildlife center for animals, provide health insurance, help stop teenage smoking and drug use, secure the Environment, protect children from being abused in any way, support homeless or poor American citizens, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
(this is what i wrote but i used the same ending as the original preable but i dont know if we areallowed to use it)

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Rumambubchoo asked:

I have a 5 page report due in a few days. I want to finish it now because i am going to be very busy the next few days. I’ve written 3 1/2 pages about drug dealing in school, parental involvement and statistics, OTC drug misuse, drug addiction and alcohol addiction.

I don’t know what else to write about. Help!

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Dawn M asked:

Becoming a full professional with a graduate degree in Social Work represents the culmination of a long life of personal and professional preparation. I have so enjoyed working with people, helping them with their problems. At 34, I now feel that I have the necessary maturity to perform at my very best level, again, as a student.I now also have an especially high level of motivation that accompanies my current position working with at-risk youth, mostly minority.Frankly, I am saddened by the high incarceration rates in America, and the way that our youth lead the way going to jail, rather than college, working, etc. This sense of urgency makes me an excellent candidate for your Master’s program, because I am so fully engaged with my place of employment; it is my mission, and an excellent place to complete my internship. It is my sincere hope to be able to make some modest contribution to discussions of how to best counsel and care for at risk youth, in my case my research interest is in juvenile youth, especially those at risk for spending their young adulthood behind bars. My inspiration, zeal. level of motivation, it all speaks to be graduate school as a place where I belong.

I am currently working as a youth Counselor at Harbor View Adolescent Center, a residential treatment facility, with adolescents between the ages of twelve to eighteen. Most of the adolescents encountered problems with drug and alcohol abuse, behavioral and emotional problems, and problems with the criminal justice system. In my job as a youth counselor, my primary responsibility while working with them was to serve as a positive role model. At times, my job was extremely stressful. However I discovered that I had the ability to connect with the adolescents and develop strong emotional ties with them. My main goal was to help them build their self-esteem and improve their sense of security.

There would be times that the youth would have self-injurious behavior. It was during this times that I would get stuck in knowing the what the best clinical approach to use when a child is self-harming. I would like to have better tools for helping these kids when they are in crisis, and whether those interventions are well supported by the literature.

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changing everyday asked:

Becoming a full professional with a graduate degree in Social work represents a culmination of a long life of personal and professional preparation. I have enjoyed working with people, helping them with their problems. At 34, I now feel that I have the necessary maturity to perform at my very best level, again, as a student. I also have an especially high level of motivation that accompanies my current position working with at-risk youth, mostly minority. However, I am deeply saddened by the explosive incarceration rates in our society, and the way juvenile delinquents lead the way going to jail, rather than college, working, or etc. This sense of urgency makes me an excellent candidate for your Master’s program because I am so fully engaged with my place of employment. It is my sincere hope to to be able to make some modest contribution to discussions of how to best counsel and care for at-risk youth, in my case research interest is in boys, especially those at-risk for spending their young adulthood behing bars. My inspiration, zeal, and level of motivation, it all speaks to be graduate school a place where I belong.

I am currently working at Harbor View Adolescent Center, a residential treatment facility, as a Youth Counselor for adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems.I believe that Social Work is the professional track that is the best match for my being able to make a positive difference in the lives of adolescents.
In my job as a youth counselor, my primary work responsibility was to serve as a positive role model for adolescents aged twelve to eighteen. The residents had encountered issues such as homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and criminal justice system. At times, my job was extremely stressful. But I discovered that I had the ability to connect with the adolescents and develop strong emotional ties with them. I focused on helping them with their social skills, coping skills, and independent living skills. My main goal was to help them build their self-esteem and improve their sense of security.
There were many times that these adolescents would exhibit dangerous behavior. Often times the adolescents would self-harm themselves. I would get stuck in knowing what the best clinical approach to use when a child is self-harming. I would like to have better tools for helping these kids when they are in crisis, and whether those interventions are well supported by literature.

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kandyman3232 asked:

If someone is knowledgable on the topics of chemical addictions, I am in dire need of your help. My book was stolen on Monday and I have some online questions due tonight. Please help!!!

Which is not a diagnostic category related to substance abuse in the DSM IV

a. Substance Intoxication

b. Substance use

c. Substance Abuse

d. Substance Dependence

It is believed that most drugs with abuse potential enhance pleasure centers by causing the release of ______.

a. norepinephrine

b. dopamine

c. serotonin

d. adrenalin

When LSD is taken orally, what percentage of the total dose reaches the brain?

a. 75%

b. 100%

c. 1%

d. 25%

The idea that assessments must be able to stand up in court is called

a. Marketability

b. Ideation

c. The Gold Standard

d. Assessment specification

______ is a effect that occurs when a drug has been eliminated from the body

a. Reverse tolerance

b. Rebound effect

c. Physical dependence

d. Mental set

A glass of champagne has a faster onset of action than a glass of wine which contains the same amount of alcohol because ______

a. liver enzymes do not metabolize champagne as rapidly as wine.

b. wine, but not champagne, contain contaminant products which slow down absorption.

c. champagne does not have to be digested because it is absorbed more readily, whereas wine has to be digested.

d. the carbon dioxide (carbonation) in champagne moves it more rapidly from the stomach to the small intestine where absorption occurs more rapidly.

In families where “We keep peace at all costs” is called a _____ family system.

a. overfunctioning

b. ambiguous

c. ineffective

d. bargaining

e. cognitively ineffective

The numbering code associated with a diagnosis is called

a. The Numeric Diagnostic Categories

b. The OHRP reporting criteria

c. The ICD-10 codes

d. The OCRH scaling system

Which is correct about screenings?

a. screenings allow the therapist to develop a DSM diagnosis.

b. screenings tend to get a lot of information and take a long time.

c. screenings allow the therapist to place the client in an appropriate treatment setting.

d. . screening are designed to allow the therapist to determine if more information is needed

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D asked:

In 2002 the RAND Institute’s Drug Research Policy Center sponsored a study examining the “gateway theory,” which postulates that marijuana use leads to the abuse of other drugs such as cocaine and heroin. In the following viewpoint Jim McDonough argues that the media has misrepresented the results of the study by claiming that it found that marijuana is not a gateway drug. In fact, McDonough contends, the study’s researchers discovered that the correlation between marijuana use and other drug use is high, and that users who abuse marijuana on a frequent basis are more likely to use cocaine and heroin. McDonough is the director of the Florida Office of Drug Control and formerly served as director of strategic planning at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

As you read, consider the following questions:

What previous study results are accepted by the author of the RAND study, according to McDonough?
What is the “common factor” theory, as cited by the author?
What are the RAND study’s important findings that were missed by the press and promarijuana lobby, according to McDonough?

Big excitement has hit the drug legalization world. A [2002] RAND Drug Policy Research Center study reported that marijuana may look, act, and smell like a gateway drug to abuse of harder drugs, but that possibly it is not a gateway drug after all.

A Misrepresented Study

The marijuana normalizers—as in, “let’s make marijuana use normal, or acceptable”—loved it; so did some of the press. Both were quick to misportray the study, so much so that the author of the study himself was dismayed.

Andrew Morral of RAND believes he did everything he could to explain he did not disprove the gateway theory but, as he told me, “The story about it misrepresented both our findings and my comments about the relevance of our findings to US drug policy. RAND and I have taken pains to emphasize that we do not believe we have disproved the gateway theory.”

The study did say that a high incidence of progression from marijuana to heroin and cocaine use is apparent; that the younger you are when you start using marijuana, the more likely you are to end up using cocaine and heroin; that the more often you use marijuana, the more likely you will use cocaine and heroin.

In short, the study shows the correlation between marijuana and other drug abuse to be high.

Indeed, the study accepts previous studies that have demonstrated the probability that heroin and cocaine use increases 85 times for marijuana users when compared with those who are not marijuana users; that early teen use of marijuana is even more highly correlated with other drug use than late teen marijuana use; and that the more puffs of marijuana you take, the more likely you move on to injections and snorting of even more dangerous drugs.

But here’s where the misunderstanding begins. The study says that maybe these terrible things happen because the people who use all these nasty drugs do it because they have a propensity for drug use, and marijuana is the first illegal drug to present itself to the young.

Dr. Morral calls that the “common factor” theory.

In other words, all drug users like all drugs; marijuana just comes along first. He suggests that this theory might be more accurate than the gateway theory.

But is a gateway not a gateway because it happens to present itself in front of where you want to go?

Perhaps this study’s findings appear trivial. They aren’t. If marijuana is merely the door through which those inclined to use drugs pass because it is convenient, all the more reason to keep that door locked.

Marijuana Is Dangerous

I’m convinced that’s the best way to view Morral’s findings, because the pro-marijuana lobby and much of what the press missed in this study, as well as other careful studies, were findings that suggest:

There is a strong correlation between marijuana and other drug abuse, with marijuana almost always occurring first.
Marijuana, all by itself, is a dangerous drug.
There is a strong correlation between marijuana use and schizophrenia.
Marijuana itself is addictive.
Youth marijuana use correlates highly with violence, truancy, and other behavioral problems.
The younger the marijuana user, the more psychological and physiological damage done, and the more likely that other drugs will follow.
Smoking three marijuana joints a day can cause the equivalent respiratory damage associated with 20 cigarettes a day. Marijuana smokers show significantly more respiratory symptoms than people who don’t smoke it.
Prolonged use can cause attention deficit and deterioration in memory.

Over the years, I have talked with hundreds of addicts and treatment counselors. They say that marijuana was virtually always the beginning of a long, ugly journey; that marijuana is the most insidious of the illegal drugs because of the seductive, but often wrong, rationale that you can quit any time you want

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