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    Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act New Jersey Legislation Assembly No. 2082 Nicholas Faraldi 12/4/2014 Description of the Act and Sponsorship The Overdose Prevention Act was last amended January 14th of 2013. The act was created to protect witnesses to overdoses so they could help someone who is overdosing with immunity from any prosecution. The act also encourages the use of naloxone or other opioid blockers to healthcare professionals to prevent the deaths of opioid…

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    My Top Five Personalities

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    Now that I have reported the findings of the personality inventories, I will explain these findings as each inventory goes into detail about what the results mean in relation to my personality. To begin with the first inventory, the MBTI, my results concluded my personal four-letter profile to be INFJ/P. Each letter signifies one of two traits in four categories. There are numerous descriptions for each of the traits, but I am going to summarize those that I consider are the most relevant. The…

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    The nineteenth century is associated with the rise of the West where unprecedented power came to be concentrated in Britain and France. Considering that in 1800 Western powers held approximately 35 percent of the earth’s surface which had risen to 67 percent by 1878 and a staggering 85 percent by 1914 illustrates how the world, like never before, was united into a single interacting whole by the Western imperial powers (Said 6). The use of the term ‘interacting whole’ to describe the world in…

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    An Elizabethan understanding of mental health is quite unlike our conception of mental illness in the modern era. To the Elizabethan, the most accepted theory of madness was based on the Greek conception of the ‘humours’. The Greeks eliminated supernatural understandings of madness by a secular understanding based on the imbalances of bodily humours- sanguine humour(associated with air) was responsible for optimism and irresponsibility, choleric humour was responsible for short temper and…

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    psychologically. Many individuals are able to cope with small exposures to stress, and some people even become more productive when encountering stress. However, it is problematic when stress becomes overwhelming and a person begins to suffer from its adverse consequences including increased anxiety, depression and many other side effects (Rizzolo, Zipp, Stiskal, & Simpkins, 2009, p. 81). Simply put, stress is the body’s response to a demand. There are multiple types of stress with each having…

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    They suggest homelessness is many factors working in concert; poverty, changes in residence, schools, and services, loss of possessions, disruptions in social networks, and exposure to extreme hardships. Homeless children will likely experience clinical levels of depression, anxiety, and behavioral problems. Any solution must include attention to the needs of families and children;…

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    Racial Empathy Gap Analysis

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    1. The strongest empirically supportable claim that I can make for the significance of race/ethnicity in criminal justice proceedings is that there exists a “racial empathy gap.” Recent studies have shown that both blacks and whites hold an “empathy gap” towards blacks that can influence the punishments minorities receive in schools and within the United States criminal system. To begin, there must be an examination of what this “racial empathy gap” is. What multiple studies have shown is that…

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    The historical rise of professions coincides with the unprecedented demand for expertise in matters concerning complex social and economic issues (Walker & McLean, 2013). Members of society increasingly seek the protagonist qualities of the professionals who represent a source of dexterity and competence. In this sense professionals have come to occupy a predominant place as the problems solvers of the modern era (Pandey, 1990). In the context of the child welfare domain, social work is…

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    Historically, health practitioners used to work in communities with clients who had similar or same cultural and ethnic backgrounds to their own. However, with the changing dynamics of the world, the ethnic and cultural compositions of communities have now become cosmopolitan. Different cultures have different systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated, and who should be involved in the process. The extent to which patients perceive patient education…

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    Homophobia envelops a scope of adverse mentalities and sentiments toward homosexuality or individuals who are distinguished or saw as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). It can be communicated as hostility, disdain, bias, repugnance, or contempt may be in light of unreasonable…

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